Fushanosaurus (Chinese: 傅山龙; pinyin: Fùshānlóng; meaning "Fushan lizard", after the Fushan Museum where its remains are stored) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Shishugou Formation from Xinjiang Province in China. The type and only species is Fushanosaurus qitaiensis (Chinese: 奇台傅山龙; pinyin: Qítái Fùshānlóng). It is solely known from the holotype specimen FH000101, a complete right femur.[1]

Fushanosaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, ~161–156 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Eusauropoda
Genus: Fushanosaurus
Wang et al., 2019
Type species
Fushanosaurus qitaiensis
Wang et al., 2019

The holotype femur of F. qitaiensis is 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) long. By comparison to two other giant sauropods from Asia, Ruyangosaurus and Daxiatitan, Fushanosaurus was estimated to have been approximately 30 metres (98 ft) long, which would then make it one of the longest known dinosaurs.[1]

Fushanosaurus was originally described as a titanosauriform,[1] but the features initially believed to indicate titanosauriform affinities are actually more widespread among sauropods, and Fushanosaurus may be a mamenchisaurid, the only group of sauropods definitely known to be present in the Shishugou Formation.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Wang, Xu-ri; Wu, Wen-hao; Li, Tao; Ji, Qiang; Li, Yin-xian; Guo, Jin-fang (2019). "A new titanosauriform dinosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from Late Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang". Global Geology (in Chinese). 38 (3): 581–588. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-5589.2019.03.001.
  2. ^ Moore, Andrew J.; Barrett, Paul M.; Upchurch, Paul; Liao, Chun-Chi; Ye, Yong; Hao, Baoqiao; Xu, Xing (2023-03-15). "Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum Russell and Zheng, 1993, and the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2171818. eISSN 1478-0941. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 257573094.