Bashanosaurus
Bashanosaurus (meaning "Bashan lizard", after an ancient name for Chongqing) is a genus of stegosaur dinosaur recovered from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic)-aged Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China. The type species is Bashanosaurus primitivus. It is one of the basalmost stegosaurs and is also the oldest known stegosaur, supplanting the previous oldest known stegosaur, Adratiklit, which is roughly one million years younger.
| Bashanosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, ~ | |
|---|---|
| Life reconstruction of B. primitivus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Suborder: | †Stegosauria |
| Genus: | †Bashanosaurus Dai et al., 2022 |
| Type species | |
| †Bashanosaurus primitivus Dai et al., 2022 | |
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