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Datousaurus bashanensis
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Datousaurus bashanensis

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Datousaurus (meaning "chieftain lizard" or "big-head lizard"; originally named using the Malay datu, after its Chinese nickname qiulong - literally "chieftain dragon" - but also a pun on its big head; da tou means "big head" in Chinese) is a sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Lower Shaximiao Formation in Sichuan province, China. It shared the local Middle Jurassic landscape with other sauropods such as Shunosaurus, Omeisaurus, and Protognathosaurus, the neornithischian Xiaosaurus, and the early stegosaur Huayangosaurus as well as the carnivorous Gasosaurus.

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Il datousauro (Datousaurus bashanensis) è un dinosauro erbivoro appartenente ai sauropodi. Visse nel Giurassico medio (Bathoniano/Calloviano, circa 170 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Cina.

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