Chuanjiesaurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Skeleton models of Chuanjiesaurus, Lufengosaurus and Sinosaurus, China Science and Technology Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Family: †Mamenchisauridae
Genus: †Chuanjiesaurus
Fang et al., 2000
Species:
†C. anaensis
Binomial name
†Chuanjiesaurus anaensis
Fang et al., 2000

Chuanjiesaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs from the middle Jurassic Period. They lived in what is now China. The type species, Chuanjiesaurus anaensis, was first described by Fang, Pang, Lü, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng in 2000.[1] Fossils of the species were found in the village of Chuanjie, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, (in Chuanjie Formation deposits) and are named after the location where the fossils were discovered.[2] Holtz gave a length of 25 meters (82 ft).[3]

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References

  1. ↑ X. Fang, Pang, J., Y. Zhang, Pan, X. Wang, Li and Cheng. 2000. [Lower, Middle, and Upper Jurassic divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan province]. Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing 208-214
  2. ↑ Sekiya, T. (2011). Re-examination of Chuanjiesaurus anaensis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, southwest China." Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, 10: 1－54.
  3. ↑ Holtz, Thomas R. (2012). "Holtz's Genus List" (PDF).


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