A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods

Citation

Dai, H.; Hu, X. F.; Tan, C.; Ren, X. X.; Ma, Q. Y.; Wei, G. B.; You, H. L. (2025). A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods. Scientific Reports 15(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-29995-z

Names first published here

• Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis species

Cited by genera

• Mamenchisaurus

  Erects Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis on holotype CIP V0001 from the Shaximiao Formation of Chongqing; retains the generic name to avoid further nomenclatural confusion.

• Tienshanosaurus

  Lists Tienshanosaurus chitaiensis among the species of the Callovian–Oxfordian Shishugou Formation.