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Xianshanosaurus ✝

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Xianshanosaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of the Ruyang Basin in Henan Province, China. It was described in 2009 by a team of Chinese paleontologists. The type species is X. shijiagouensis.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianshanosaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8447555	https://www.gbif.org/species/8447555
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	202272	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=202272

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Xianshanosaurus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Xianshanosaurus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Massopoda	Yates 2007
-	Sauropodiformes	Martinez et al. 2011
-	Sauropoda
-	Eusauropoda	Upchurch 1995
-	Neosauropoda	Bonaparte 1986
-	Macronaria	Sereno 1997
-	Titanosauriformes	Salgado et al. 1997
-	Somphospondyli	Wilson and Sereno 1998
-	Titanosauria	Bonaparte and Coria 1993
genus	Xianshanosaurus	Lü et al. 2009

Scientific Name

Xianshanosaurus Lü et al., 2009

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Xianshanosaurus	genus	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Lü et al., 2009
Xianshanosaurus	genus	belongs to Titanosauria	stated without evidence	Mannion and Calvo, 2011
Xianshanosaurus	genus	belongs to Lithostrotia	stated with evidence	D'Emic, 2012
Xianshanosaurus	genus	belongs to Titanosauria	stated with evidence	Mannion et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Sauropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Diet

herbivore (based on Sauropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Sauropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense,thick (based on Sauropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Lü, L. Xu, and X. Jiang, S. Jia, M. Li, C. Yuan, X. Zhang, Q. Ji. 2009. A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 25(1):43-56

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianshanosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Xianshanosaurus shijiagouensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2009	Xianshanosaurus Lü et al.
2011	Xianshanosaurus Mannion and Calvo
2012	Xianshanosaurus D'Emic
2013	Xianshanosaurus Mannion et al.
2016	Xianshanosaurus Poropat et al.
2019	Xianshanosaurus Mannion et al.

References

Lü J., Xu L., et al (2009) A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China, Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 25 1, 43-56

Mannion P. D., Calvo J. O. (2011) Anatomy of the basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Andesaurus delgadoi from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian–early Cenomanian) Río Limay Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina: implications for titanosaur systematics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163, 155-181

D'Emic M. D. (2012) The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166, 624-671

Mannion P. D., Upchurch P., et al (2013) Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168, 98-206

Poropat S. F., Mannion P. D., et al (2016) New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography, Scientific Reports 6, 34467:1-12

Mannion P. D., Upchurch P., et al (2019) New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography, Royal Society Open Science 6, 191057:1-22

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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