Zircon geochronology of the new dinosaur fauna in the Middle Jurassic lower Shaximiao Formation in Chongqing, SW China
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Sjekket: 8.9.2026
VERIFY:geological_stage: stored=middle to late jurassic suggested=Middle Jurassic (Bathonian–Callovian) confidence=medium — Current peer-reviewed work places the Omeisaurus-bearing lower Shaximiao Formation in the Middle Jurassic, with the unit described as deposited in the Bathonian to Callovian and a tuff zircon U-Pb weighted mean age of 166.0 ± 1.5 Ma. Extension of the stage into the Late Jurassic is no longer supported, since Upper Shaximiao (Late Jurassic) material referred to Omeisaurus is now generally regarded as indeterminate.
Åpne kilde ↗A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in China and its implication on sauropod gigantism
Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Peer-reviewed phylogenetic analysis of Chinese eusauropods that recovers Omeisaurus within Mamenchisauridae (Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Saurischia, Dinosauria).
Åpne kilde ↗PBDB Taxon: Omeisaurus junghsiensis Young 1939
Paleobiology Database
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Database taxon page listing the recorded fossil occurrences, Sichuan (Rongxian/Jungshien) type locality and Middle–Upper Jurassic stratigraphic range of Omeisaurus junghsiensis.
Åpne kilde ↗Evolution from shallow-water deltas to fluvial fans in lacustrine basins: A case study from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in the central Sichuan Basin, China
Sedimentology (Wiley)
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Peer-reviewed sedimentological reconstruction of the Shaximiao Formation as a warm inland lowland of river systems, deltas and lakes — the depositional setting in which Omeisaurus lived.
Åpne kilde ↗Testing intra-individual variation in dental microwear texture of Omeisaurus maoianus and preliminary interspecific comparisons of sauropodomorphs
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Elsevier)
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Peer-reviewed dental microwear study of Omeisaurus teeth documenting its plant-eating (herbivorous) feeding ecology.
Åpne kilde ↗Zircon geochronology of the new dinosaur fauna in the Middle Jurassic lower Shaximiao Formation in Chongqing, SW China
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Elsevier)
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Åpne kilde ↗Omeisaurus | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, body form, age, diet and Chinese provenance of Omeisaurus, used as the general description source.
Åpne kilde ↗Omeisaurus | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, body form, age, diet and Chinese provenance of Omeisaurus, used as the general description source.
Åpne kilde ↗Omeisaurus | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, body form, age, diet and Chinese provenance of Omeisaurus, used as the general description source.
Åpne kilde ↗Omeisaurus | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Sjekket: 8.9.2026
Museum overview page summarising the size, body form, age, diet and Chinese provenance of Omeisaurus, used as the general description source.
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