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Shunosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Shunosaurus was named by Dong et al. (1983). It is not extant. Its type is Shunosaurus lii. It is the type genus of Shunosaurinae.

It was assigned to Cetiosaurinae by Dong et al. (1983), Zhang et al. (1984) and Dong and Tang (1984); to Sauropoda by Wilson and Sereno (1994); to Euhelopodidae by Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Vickaryous and Ryan (1997), Upchurch (1997); to Barapasauridae by Dong (1998); to Shunosaurinae by McIntosh (1990), Dong (1992), Dong (1997), Martin-Rolland (1999); to Cetiosauridae by Zhang (1988), Carroll (1988), McIntosh (1990), Zhang and Chen (1996), McIntosh (1997), Padian (1997), Peng et al. (2005), Ye et al. (2007), Li et al. (2010), Li et al. (2011); and to Eusauropoda by Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Sereno et al. (1999), Wilson (2002), Chatterjee and Zheng (2002), Upchurch et al. (2004), Royo-Torres et al. (2006), Lü et al. (2006), Upchurch et al. (2007), Allain and Aquesbi (2008), Yates (2010), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Sekiya (2011), D'Emic (2012), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), Mocho et al. (2014), Xing et al. (2015).

Species

S. lii (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1983	Shunosaurus Dong et al. pp. 19-26 figs. 7-12, Pl. 4-6
1984	Shunosaurus Dong and Tang
1984	Shunosaurus Zhang et al. p. 1
1988	Shunosaurus Carroll
1988	Shunosaurus Zhang p. 1
1990	Shunosaurus McIntosh p. 54
1992	Shunosaurus Dong p. 163
1994	Shunosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 52A
1995	Shunosaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996	Shunosaurus Zhang and Chen
1997	Shunosaurus Dong p. 793
1997	Shunosaurus McIntosh p. 656
1997	Shunosaurus Padian p. 532
1997	Shunosaurus Sereno p. 442 fig. 4
1997	Shunosaurus Upchurch p. 82A
1997	Shunosaurus Vickaryous and Ryan p. 489
1998	Shunosaurus Dong p. 83
1998	Shunosaurus Sereno p. 71 fig. 7
1998	Shunosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 54 fig. 44
1999	Shunosaurus Martin-Rolland p. 310
1999	Shunosaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999	Shunosaurus Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 4
2002	Shunosaurus Chatterjee and Zheng pp. 165-166
2002	Shunosaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2004	Shunosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 262
2005	Shunosaurus Peng et al.
2006	Shunosaurus Lü et al. p. 9
2006	Shunosaurus Royo-Torres et al. p. 1926 fig. 3
2007	Shunosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2007	Shunosaurus Ye et al. p. 136
2008	Shunosaurus Allain and Aquesbi p. 403
2010	Shunosaurus Ksepka and Norell
2010	Shunosaurus Li et al. p. 199
2010	Shunosaurus Suteethorn et al.
2010	Shunosaurus Yates p. 750
2011	Shunosaurus Li et al. p. 23
2011	Shunosaurus Sekiya
2012	Shunosaurus D'Emic
2013	Shunosaurus Apaldetti et al.
2013	Shunosaurus Otero and Pol
2014	Shunosaurus Mocho et al.
2015	Shunosaurus Xing et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Sauropoda	()
—	Gravisauria
—	Eusauropoda
genus	Shunosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Shunosaurus Dong et al. 1983

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†Shunosaurus lii Dong et al. 1983

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. Peng et al. 2005	As for type species Shunosaurus lii Dong et al., 1983.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult width:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult height:

10 to < 100infrao

Maximum body mass:

10000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

3000 kgg

Thickness:

thickinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Form:

sphericalinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

gregariousinfrao

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Diet:

herbivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-08-24 13:36:21

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:36:21

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Bathonian to the top of the Callovian or 168.20000 to 161.50000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Jurassic	174.7 - 161.5	China (Chongqing)	S. lii (231910)
Middle Jurassic	174.7 - 161.5	China (Sichuan)	S. sp. (232460)
Bajocian - Oxfordian	170.9 - 154.8	China (Sichuan)	S. lii (24883)
Bathonian - Callovian	168.2 - 161.5	China (Sichuan)	S. lii (28234)
Bathonian - Callovian	168.2 - 161.5	China (Chongqing)	Sauropoda indet. (205726)