Yimenosaurus

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Yimenosaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Prosauropoda
Genus:	Yimenosaurus Bai et al., 1990

Species

Y. youngi Bai et al., 2006 (type)

Yimenosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Fossils from several individuals were recovered from Yimen, China, and the type species Y. youngi was named by Bai, Yang & Wang in 1990. Reconstructions are based on mostly complete skeletons, missing only parts of the limbs.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Bai, Z., J. Yang, and G. Wang. (1990). "A new genus of prosauropod from the Yuxi (region) of Yunnan Province [Yunnan Yuxi yuanxijiao lei yi xin shu]". Yuxi Cultural Organization [Yuxi Wen Tuan] 1 (October 1990): pp. 14-23