Kingdom Animalia Clade Dinosauria Clade †Neosauropoda Phylum Chordata Order Saurischia | Class Reptilia Suborder †Sauropodomorpha Clade †Macronaria Rank Genus | |
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Similar Dongyangosaurus, Baotianmansaurus, Xuanhuaceratops, Helioceratops, Gobiceratops | ||
Xianshanosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of what is now China. It was described in 2009 by a team of Chinese paleontologists. The type species is X. shijiagouensis.
Classification
Mathew Wedel and Mike Taylor, made a cladistic analysis of the pneumaticity of caudal vertebrae. The analysis found that Xianshanosaurus was a basal titanosaurian, with Malawisaurus and Trigonosaurus as its sister taxa. The cladogram found is shown below:
References
Xianshanosaurus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA