Outline: a typical sauropod
Huashanosaurus
"Huashan lizard"
Type species Huashanosaurus qini
- Lived
- 201 to 162 million years ago, Early Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Mo et al. 2025
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
180 million years ago
Field notes
About Huashanosaurus
What it was like
Huashanosaurus was a long-necked sauropod known from a partial skeleton.
Its world
It lived in the Jurassic in what is now China. Its bones come from the Wangmen Formation.
How it was found
Mo and colleagues named it in 2025. The type species is Huashanosaurus qini.
Close relatives
Other members of Eusauropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. Mo, X. Zhou, and Q. Fu, D. Xiong, M. Hu, X. Xu. 2025. A new eusauropod dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 99(4):909–924