Named By: | Li, Peng, Yong, Jiang & Huang in 2009 |
Time Period: | Bathonian-Callovian |
Location: | China - Sichuan Province - Dashanpu/Upper Shaximiao Formation |
Size: | Estimated between 6 and 7 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial but otherwise very well preserved individual including skull and post cranial remains. A femur of a juvenile has also been attributed to the genus |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Allosauroidea | Sinraptoridae | |
Leshansaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Mid to Late Jurassic Dashanpu Formation of what is now China. It was described in 2009 by a team of Chinese paleontologists. The type species is Leshansaurus qianweiensis. Fossils of Leshansaurus were discovered in strata from the Shangshaximiao Formation, a formation rich in dinosaur fossils. Li et al. referred this taxon to Sinraptoridae - a group of carnosaurian theropods, but it may it belong to Megalosauridae instead.