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long-neck giant
Dashanpusaurus
Say it like this: “dah-SHAHN-poo-SAWR-us”
Dashanpusaurus dongi
Dashanpusaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 2005 · Peng, G.; Ye, Y.; Gao, Y.; Shu, C.; Jiang, S.
- Hip height
- 3.7 m · 12 ft
- Length
- 13.8 m · 45 ft
- Weight
- 5.2 tonnes
- Found in
- China · Shaximiao
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Macronaria
The story in short
In 2005, G. Peng and colleagues published the name Dashanpusaurus. The name means “dashanpu lizard.”
It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian), roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shaximiao Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Dashanpusaurus at a length near 13.8 m, hips about 3.7 m high, and a body mass around 5.2 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Macronaria, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Abrosaurus
Abrosaurus dongpoi
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Aragosaurus
Aragosaurus ischiaticus
Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Tithonian · Berriasian) · roughly 149.2 to 137.1 million years ago
Astrodon
Astrodon johnstoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago