Reptilia - Saurischia - Mamenchisauridae

Full reference: D. A. Russell and Z. Zheng. 1994. A large mamenchisaurid from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2082-2095

Belongs to Mamenchisaurus according to A. J. Moore et al. 2023

See also Azuma and Tomida 1997, Currie 1997, Dong 1997, Dong 2001, Lü et al. 2008, Maisch and Matzke 2019, Martin-Rolland 1999, Ouyang and Ye 2002, Russell and Zheng 1994, Saegusa and Tomida 2011, Upchurch et al. 2004, Xing et al. 2020 and Xing et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Mamenchisaurus anyuensis, Mamenchisaurus constructus, Mamenchisaurus gongjianensis, Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis, Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, Mamenchisaurus youngi

Type specimen: IVPP V10603, a partial skeleton (Cranial remains & cervical vertebrae). Its type locality is east of Qitai-Ertai road (SCDP), which is in an Oxfordian coarse channel fill sandstone/siltstone in the Shishugou Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at east of Qitai-Ertai road (SCDP)

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