Huashanosaurus
Huashanosaurus was a long-necked plant eater that lived in what is now southern China. It walked on all fours and used its small head to munch on leaves high in the trees.1
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Huashanosaurus was named in 2025, making it one of the newest dinosaurs discovered.1
Its fossils were first found in 2002 by a local teacher named Jian Qin while he was searching for stones near a river.1
The dinosaur's name honors Huashan Mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for ancient rock art.1
Huashanosaurus is only the second eusauropod dinosaur ever found in the Guangxi region of China.1
Scientists think Huashanosaurus lived during the Early to Middle Jurassic Period, about 174 to 161 million years ago.1
The fossils include a foot claw, finger bones, and parts of the arm and leg, but no skull has been found.1
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- Scientific name
- Huashanosaurus
- Named by
- Mo et al. 20253
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Eusauropoda3
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda3
- Age of the rocks
- 201 to 162 million years (Hettangian / Callovian)3
- Rock formations
- Wangmen3
- Countries
- China3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Huashanosaurus was described in 2025 by Mo and colleagues based on fossils found in 2002 and 2017 in southern China. The species name qini honors the discoverer, local teacher Jian Qin.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure if the Wangmen Formation is entirely Early Jurassic or extends into the Middle Jurassic, which affects the exact age of Huashanosaurus.1
Where the facts come from
- Huashanosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Huashanosaurus qini | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Huashanosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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