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Jingshanosaurus (meaning "Jingshan lizard") is the name given to a genus of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic. Its fossils, a nearly complete skeleton including the skull, were found in Asia. First described in 1995, the type species is J. xinwaensis, formalized by Zhang and Yang.[1] Jingshanosaurus was one of the very last of the prosauropods, which slowly died out in favor of their larger cousins, the sauropods.
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- ^ Y. Zhang, and Z. Yang. (1995). A new complete osteology of Prosauropoda in Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Yunnan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Kunming, China 1-100. [Chinese]
