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 | |
Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age (Upper Jurassic) Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.