Information about Omeisaurus
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O. junghsiensis Yang Zhongjian (Chung Chien Young), 1939 (type species) O. changskouensis Yang Zhongjian (Chung Chien Young), 1958 O. fuxiensis and Dong, Zhou and Zhang, 1983 O. luoquanensis He, Li and Cai, 1988 O. maoianus Tang, Jin, Kang, and Zhang, 2001 O. tianfuensis He, Li, Cai and Gao, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||
Omeisaurus ("Omei lizard") was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of what is now China. Its name comes from Mount Emei, where it was discovered.
Like other sauropods, Omeisaurus was herbivorous and large. It measured 10 to 15 meters (30 to 45 feet long and 4 meters (12 feet) high and weighed 4 tons. It had the typical bulky body and long neck of other dinosaurs in its suborder. Unlike many sauropods, however, its nostrils were located close to the end of its nose. The back of the Omeisaurus was higher at its hips than at its shoulders.
Classification
It was once classified as a member of the Cetiosauridae family, due to a club tail fossil discovered in the same bone bed as the Omeisaurus fossils. The club tail is now believed to belong to a large Shunosaurus. The species O. fuxiensis is sometimes confused with Zigongosaurus, but the two are based on different material despite having the same species name.In popular culture
Mounted skeletons of Omeisaurus are on display at the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province and at Beipei Museum, near Chongqing, both in China.References
- Dong Zhiming (1988). Dinosaurs from China. China Ocean Press, Beijing & British Museum (Natural History). ISBN 0-565-01073-5.
External links
- http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Dinosaurs/Omeisaurusjunghsiensis.html
- http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a6c3d5.htm
The Middle Jurassic, called the Dogger in the European system of classification, is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 180-154 million years ago.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885
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- Ornithischia
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Seeley, 1887
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Saurischia (from the Greek sauros (σαυρος) meaning 'lizard' and ischion (
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- Theropoda
- Sauropodomorpha
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Sauropodomorpha
von Huene, 1932
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Prosauropoda
Sauropoda
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Sauropoda
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Sauropoda
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Euhelopodidae
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Euhelopus
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Born in Huaxian, Shaanxi Province, Yang Zhongjian (Chinese: 杨钟健) (1897-1979), courtesy name (Zi) Keqiang (克强), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists.
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Born in Huaxian, Shaanxi Province, Yang Zhongjian (Chinese: 杨钟健) (1897-1979), courtesy name (Zi) Keqiang (克强), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists.
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Dong Zhiming (1937-, Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng), from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists.
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Sauropoda
Marsh, 1878
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Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. They were the largest animals ever to have lived on land.
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Marsh, 1878
Families
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Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. They were the largest animals ever to have lived on land.
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842
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Owen, 1842
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- Ornithischia
- Cerapoda
- Thyreophora
- Saurischia
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The Jurassic Period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 199.6 ± 0.6 Ma (million years ago) to 145.4 ± 4.0 Ma, the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous.
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Sauropoda
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Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. They were the largest animals ever to have lived on land.
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Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. They were the largest animals ever to have lived on land.
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Shunosaurus
Dong, Zhou & Zhang (1983)
Shunosaurus, meaning "Shu Lizard", was an unusual genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian–Callovian) beds in Sichuan Province in China, 170 million years ago.
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Dong, Zhou & Zhang (1983)
Shunosaurus, meaning "Shu Lizard", was an unusual genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian–Callovian) beds in Sichuan Province in China, 170 million years ago.
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Zigongosaurus
Binomial name
Zigongosaurus fuxiensis
Hou, Zhao, and Chao, 1976 (also represented as Hou, Chao, and Chu, but they are the same authors)
Zigongosaurus
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Binomial name
Zigongosaurus fuxiensis
Hou, Zhao, and Chao, 1976 (also represented as Hou, Chao, and Chu, but they are the same authors)
Zigongosaurus
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