Bashanosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic (Bathonian),
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Stegosauria |
Genus: | †Bashanosaurus Dai et al., 2022 |
Type species | |
†Bashanosaurus primitivus Dai et al., 2022
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Bashanosaurus (meaning "Bashan lizard") is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang County, China. The genus contains a single species, Bashanosaurus primitivus, known from incomplete skeletons belonging to three individuals. It is one of the basalmost stegosaurs, as well as one of the oldest known stegosaurs, along with Adratiklit, Isaberrysaura, and Thyreosaurus.
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