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Tuojiangosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Tuojiangosaurus was named by Dong et al. (1977). Its type is Tuojiangosaurus multispinus.

It was assigned to Stegosauroidea by Zhao (1983); to Kentrosauridae by Olshevsky and Ford (1993) and Blows (2001); to Stegosauria by Maidment and Wei (2006) and Mateus et al. (2009); to Stegosauridae by He (1984), Sereno (1986), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Galton (1990), Carpenter et al. (2001), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Maidment et al. (2006) and Li et al. (2011); and to Stegosaurinae by Dong et al. (1977), Dong et al. (1983), Zhou (1983), Zhou (1986), Dong (1990), Dong (1992), Peng et al. (2005), Maidment et al. (2008) and Ulansky (2014).

Species

T. multispinus (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1977	Tuojiangosaurus Dong et al.
1983	Tuojiangosaurus Dong et al. p. 104
1983	Tuojiangosaurus Zhao p. 304
1983	Tuojiangosaurus Zhou p. 26
1984	Tuojiangosaurus He p. 75
1986	Tuojiangosaurus Bonaparte p. 84
1986	Tuojiangosaurus Sereno
1986	Tuojiangosaurus Zhou p. 36
1988	Tuojiangosaurus Carroll
1990	Tuojiangosaurus Dong p. 260
1990	Tuojiangosaurus Galton
1992	Tuojiangosaurus Dong p. 166
1993	Tuojiangosaurus Olshevsky and Ford
2001	Tuojiangosaurus Blows p. 137
2001	Tuojiangosaurus Carpenter et al. p. 73 fig. 3.14
2004	Tuojiangosaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 345
2005	Tuojiangosaurus Peng et al.
2006	Tuojiangosaurus Maidment and Wei p. 622
2008	Tuojiangosaurus Maidment et al. p. 390 fig. 11
2009	Tuojiangosaurus Mateus et al.
2011	Tuojangosaurus Li et al. p. 24
2014	Tuojiangosaurus Ulansky p. 8

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Thyreophora	()
—	Stegosauria	()
genus	Tuojiangosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Tuojiangosaurus Dong et al. 1977

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†Tuojiangosaurus multispinus Dong et al. 1977

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. Peng et al. 2005	As for type species Tuojiangosaurus multispinus Dong et al., 1977.
S. C. R. Maidment et al. 2008	As for type and only known species.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Maximum body mass:

10000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

3000 kgg

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

gregariouso

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoreo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2005-08-25 06:07:49

Modified:

2005-08-25 08:07:49

Source: g = genus, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Bathonian to the top of the Callovian or 168.30000 to 163.50000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bathonian - Callovian	168.3 - 163.5	China (Sichuan)	T. multispinus (51914)