Bashanosaurus
Sign in to saveBashanosaurus (meaning "Bashan lizard") is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian age) Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang County, China. The genus contains a single species, Bashanosaurus primitivus, known from incomplete skeletons belonging to three individuals. It is one of the basalmost stegosaurs, as well as one of the oldest known stegosaurs, along with Adratiklit, Isaberrysaura, and Thyreosaurus.
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- Parent taxon
- Stegosauria
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- Bashanosaurus Skeletal.svg
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- taxon name
- Bashanosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Middle Jurassic
- Commons category
- Bashanosaurus
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