Genus
Valid Extinct

Irisosaurus

Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2020

Irisosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropodiform sauropodomorph dinosaur, from the Fengjiahe Formation of China. The type species, Irisosaurus yimenensis was formally described in 2020. It was the sister taxon to Mussaurus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Irisosaurus
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Outline of Irisosaurus yimenensis displaying the preserved material. The most informative elements are figured. (a) Outline; (b) Tooth; (c) Left maxilla; (d) Middle cervical; (e) Posterior cervical; (f) Anterior dorsal; (g) Middle dorsal neural spine; (h) Right scapula; (i) Right humerus; (j) Right ulna; (k) Right manus. Scale bars = 1 m (a); 1 cm (b); 5 cm (c–g); 10 cm (h–k). © Peyre de Fabrègues, C., Bi, S., Li, H. et al. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Irisosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Fengjiahe
1
Temporal distribution
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Irisosaurus yimenensis 193 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C. Peyre de Fabrègues, S. Bi, and H. Li, G. Li, L. Yang, X. Xu. 2020. A new species of early‐diverging Sauropodiformes from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Yunnan province, China. Scientific Reports 10:10961:1-17 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
C. Peyre de Fabrègues, S. Bi, and H. Li, G. Li, L. Yang, X. Xu. 2020. A new species of early‐diverging Sauropodiformes from the Lower Jurassic Fengjiahe Formation of Yunnan province, China. Scientific Reports 10:10961:1-17 DOI ↗