Sanpasaurus
Sanpasaurus ("Sanpa lizard") is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur from the Early to Late Jurassic of Sichuan, China. The type species, S. yaoi, was described by Chung Chien Young, in 1944. The type remains, IVPP V.156, consists of 20 vertebrae, scapulae, forelimbs, and some hindlimb bones.[1] Initially reported by Young as an ornithopod ornithischian,[1] this specimen was unambiguously referred to Sauropoda[2][3] in 2016 by McPhee et al.[4] Sanpasaurus is known from remains recovered from the Maanshan Member of the Ziliujing Formation and also the Kuangyuan Series.[5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Genus: | †Sanpasaurus Young, 1944 |
| Species: | †S. yaoi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 | |
Chevron of Sanpasaurus in anterior view (A), posterior view (B), and lateral view (C), with 5-cm black bar for scale.
References
- C.-C. Young. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24(3–4):187-205.
- A mention buried at the bottom of a long discussion of Asian sauropods, on the Dinosaur Mailing List.
- Upchurch, P. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 349:365-390.
- McPhee BW, Upchurch P, Mannion PD, Sullivan C, Butler RJ, Barrett PM. (2016) A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria) PeerJ 4:e2578 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2578
- "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
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