Omeisaurus
Sign in to saveOmeisaurus (meaning "Omei lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle to Late Jurassic Period (Bathonian-Oxfordian stage) of what is now China. Its name comes from Mount Emei, where it was discovered in the lower Shaximiao Formation of Sichuan Province.
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- Discovery and species
- Initial discovery and ''O. changshouensis''
- Discoveries at Wujiaba
- Dashanpu Quarry finds
- Recent discoveries
- Classification
- Paleoecology
- References
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Omeisaurus (meaning "Omei lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle to Late Jurassic Period (Bathonian-Oxfordian stage) of what is now China. Its name comes from Mount Emei, where it was discovered in the lower Shaximiao Formation of Sichuan Province.
Like most sauropods, Omeisaurus was herbivorous and large. The largest species, O. tianfuensis, measured long, and weighed . Other species were much smaller, as the type species O. junghsiensis reached a size of in length and in body mass, and O. maoianus reached a size of and .