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JIANGJUNOSAURUS
(je-ang-ju-no-sore-us)
meaning: "Jiangjun lizard"
Named By: C. Jia, C. A. Forster, X. Xu & J. M. Clark in 2007
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 160 Ma
Location: China, Xinjiang - Shishugou Formation
Size: Uncertain, due to lack of remains, but in the past has been roughly estimated to be around the 6 meters mark
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull and lower jaws, as well as partial post cranial skeletal remains including scapula, coracoid, ribs, eleven cervical (neck) vertebrae and two plates from the neck area. Holotype fossils are of a subadult individual
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Thyreophora | Stegosauria | Stegosauridae |
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Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.

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