Irisosaurus yimenensis Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2020 (sauropodomorph)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: C. Peyre de Fabrègues, S. Bi, H. Li, G. Li, L. Yang and X. Xu. 2020. A new species of early‐diverging Sauropodiformes from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Yunnan province, China. Scientific Reports 10:10961:1-17

Belongs to Irisosaurus according to C. Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2020

See also Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2021 and Yao et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CVEB 21901, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Jiaojiadian area B, near Zhanmatian village, which is in a Pliensbachian terrestrial siltstone in the Fengjiahe Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Jiaojiadian area B, near Zhanmatian village

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