Describer

Barrett, You, Upchurch & Burton, 1998

Time

Cretaceous Late

Classification

Ornithischia Thyreophora Eurypoda Ankylosauria

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Huiquanpu Formation, Tian Zhen, Shanxi Province, China

Info

Genus - Typespecies

Shanxia tianzhenensis has especially long and slender squamosalhorns. IVPP V11276, an incomplete skeleton including a fragmentary skull (braincase, occiput, skull roof ?quadratojugal, axis vertebra, five cervical vertebrae, three dorsal vertebrae, four caudal vertebrae, right humerus, fragment of ?illium, complete rught femur, distal portion of the left femur, and one dermal scute.