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Heishanosaurus pygmaeus
Taxonomy
Heishanosaurus pygmaeus was named by Dong et al. (2020). Its type specimen is IVPP V25324, a partial skull (partial skull with some disarticulated cranial and postcranial elements), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hongshi pit, Badaohao coal mine, which is in an Aptian/Albian fluvial-lacustrine /coal in the Shahai Formation of China. It is the type species of Heishanosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2020 | Heishanosaurus pygmaeus Dong et al. |
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†Heishanosaurus pygmaeus Dong et al. 2020
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Albian or 119.57000 to 110.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Aptian - Early/Lower Albian | China (Liaoning) | Heishanosaurus pygmaeus (type locality: 91471) |