Chuanjiesaurus

Chuanjiesaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, 168 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skeleton model, China Science and Technology Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Gravisauria
Clade:	†Eusauropoda
Genus:	†Chuanjiesaurus Fang et al., 2000
Species:	† C. anaensis
Binomial name
Chuanjiesaurus anaensis Fang et al., 2000

Chuanjiesaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs from the middle Jurassic Period. They lived in what is now China. The type species, Chuanjiesaurus ananensis, was first described by Fang, Pang, Lü, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng in 2000. Fossils of the species were found in the village of Chuanjie, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, (in Chuanjie Formation deposits) and are named after the location where the fossils were discovered.^[1]

References

1. Sekiya, T. (2011). Re-examination of Chuanjiesaurus ananensis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, southwest China." Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, 10: 1－54.

• X. Fang, Pang, J., Y. Zhang, Pan, X. Wang, Li and Cheng. 2000. [Lower, Middle, and Upper Jurassic divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan province]. Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing 208-214