[D] Omeisaurus changshouensis
Describer
Young, 1958
Time
Jurassic Late Oxfordian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Cetiosauridae Shunosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Shangshaximiao Formation, Sichuan, China
Fall Under
Omeisaurus
Info
Omeisaurus > Omeisaurus junghsiensis (Young, 1939) = Zigongosaurus fuxiensis (Hou, Chao & Chu, 1976)
Omeisaurus > Omeisaurus changshouensis (Young, 1958) > Omeisaurus fuxiensis (Dong, Zhou & Zhang, 1983) > Omeisaurus tianfuensis (He, Li, Cai & Gao, 1984) > Omeisaurus luoquanensis (Li, 1988) > Omeisaurus maoianus (Tang, Jin, Kang & Zhang, 2001) > Omeisaurus jiaoi > (Jiang, Liu, F., Peng & Ye 2011)
Partial skeleton.
Omeisaurus changshouensis is somewhat larger than Omeisaurus junghsiensis, it differed from it in various skeletal proportions and in having limb bones with relatively flatter cross sections. Collected by So Y.-L. of the Institute of Vertebrae Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP).