Heishanosaurus pygmaeus Dong et al. 2020 (choristodere)

Reptilia - Choristodera

Full reference: L.-P. Dong, R. Matsumoto, N. Kusuhashi, Y.-Q. Wang, Y. Wang and S. E. Evans. 2020. A new choristodere (Reptilia: Choristodera) from an Aptian-Albian coal deposit in China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Belongs to Heishanosaurus according to L.-P. Dong et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IVPP V25324, a partial skull (partial skull with some disarticulated cranial and postcranial elements). Its type locality is Hongshi pit, Badaohao coal mine, which is in an Aptian/Albian fluvial-lacustrine /coal in the Shahai Formation of China.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hongshi pit, Badaohao coal mine

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.