[D] Tawasaurus minor [jG]
Describer
Young, 1982
Time
?Triassic Late Jurassic Early Jurassic Middle ?Rhaetian Hettangian Sinemurian Pliensbachian Toarcian Aalenian Bajocian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Lufeng Basin, Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation [= Fengjiahe Formation], Yunnan, China
Fall Under
Lufengosaurus hunei
Info
Genus
Lufengosaurus hunei (Young, 1941) > Lufengosaurus magnus (Young, 1947) Gyposaurus sinensis (Young, 1941) Fulengia youngi (Caroll & Galton, 1977)
Lufengosaurus hunei (Young, 1941) > Tawasaurus minor (Young, 1982) >> Lufengocephalus tawae (Young, 1974)
\\\"Dawa (China) lizard\\\" Originally classified as an ornithischian [/predentatan], it is in fact a juvenile prosauropod and lacks a predentary bone.