| Description | Tuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Stegosauridae : Tuojiangosaurus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Tuojiangosaurus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Tuojiangosaurus Dong Li, Zhou & Chang, 1977 |
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| Name Published In | Vertebr. palasiat. 15 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosaurinae | stated without evidence | Dong et al., 1977 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauroidea | stated without evidence | Zhao, 1983 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated without evidence | He, 1984 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1986 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1986 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosaurinae | stated without evidence | Zhou, 1986 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated with evidence | Galton, 1990 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosaurinae | stated without evidence | Dong, 1990 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Kentrosauridae | stated without evidence | Blows, 2001 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated without evidence | Carpenter et al., 2001 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated with evidence | Galton and Upchurch, 2004 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauria | stated without evidence | Maidment and Wei, 2006 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauridae | stated without evidence | Maidment et al., 2006 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosaurinae | stated with evidence | Maidment et al., 2008 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosauria | stated with evidence | Mateus et al., 2009 | | Tuojiangosaurus | genus | belongs to Stegosaurinae | stated without evidence | Ulansky, 2014 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 157 - 145 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 157 - 145 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | Z. Dong, X. Li, and S. Zhou, Y. Zhang. 1977. On the stegosaurian remains from Zigong (Tzekung), Szechuan province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 15(4):307-312 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuojiangosaurus |
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| Dong Z., Li X., et al (1977) On the stegosaurian remains from Zigong (Tzekung), Szechuan province, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 15 4, 307-312 |
| Dong Z., Zhou S., et al (1983) [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan], Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162 23, 1-136 |
| Zhao X. (1983) Phylogeny and evolutionary stages of Dinosauria, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28 1-2, 295-306 |
| He X. (1984) The Vertebrate Fossils of Sichuan, Sichuan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Chengdu, 1-168 |
| Sereno P. C. (1986) Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (order Ornithischia), National Geographic Research 2 2, 234-256 |
| Zhou S. (1986) De l'origine et de l'évolution systématique des Stegosauria à la lumière des fossiles connus [On the origin and systematic evolution of the Stegosauria in light of the known fossils], Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse, 31-38 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Dong Z. (1990) Stegosaurs of Asia, Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 255-268 |
| Galton P. M. (1990) Stegosauria, The Dinosauria, D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, & H. Osmólska (editors), University of California Press, Berkeley, 435-455 |
| Dong Z. (1992) Dinosaurian Faunas of China, China Ocean Press, Beijing, 1-188 |
| Blows W. T. (2001) Possible stegosaur dermal armor from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England, The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 130-140 |
| Carpenter K., Miles C. A., et al (2001) New primitive stegosaur from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 55-75 |
| Maidment S. C. R., Wei G. (2006) A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China, Geological Magazine 143 5, 621-634 |
| Maidment S. C. R., Norman D. B., et al (2008) Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 4, 367-407 doi:10.1017/S1477201908002459 |
| Mateus O., Maidment S. C. R., et al (2009) A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, 1815-1821 doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1909 |
| Ulansky R. E. (2014) Dinosaurs classification. Basal Thyreophora & Stegosauria, Dinologia, 1-8 |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Vertebr. palasiat. 15 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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