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long-neck giant
Fushanosaurus
Say it like this: “foo-SHAN-o-SOR-us”
Fushanosaurus qitaiensis
Fushanosaurus 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 (Bathonian · Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 168.2 to 154.8 million years ago
- Named in
- 2019 · Wang, X. R.; Wu, W. H.; Li, T.; Ji, Q.; Li, Y. X.; Guo, J. F.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 30 m · 98 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Shishugou
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauriformes
The story in short
In 2019, X. R. Wang and colleagues published the name Fushanosaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bathonian · Callovian · Oxfordian), roughly 168.2 to 154.8 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shishugou Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Fushanosaurus at a length near 30 m.
On the family tree it sits in Titanosauriformes, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Brohisaurus
Brohisaurus kirthari
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Dinodocus
Dinodocus mackesoni
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
Duriatitan
Duriatitan humerocristatus
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago