Bishanopliosaurus

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Photo of Bishanopliosaurus on display in the Zigong Dinosaur Museum. Photo by Zhangzhugang. Used here under a CC BY 4.0 licence. The label says it is from "Dashanpu, Zigong", suggesting it isn't the type specimen (from Bishan County, Chongqing), but this could be a mistake.

Bishanopliosaurus is the most complete plesiosaur known from the Jurassic of Asia (Sato et al. 2003). The holotype specimen of the type species, B. youngi, is a partial postcranial skeleton of a juvenile individual from the Dongyuemiao Member of the Ziliujing Formation (Lower or Mid Jurassic) of Bishan County, Chongqing, China. It was first described and named by Dong (1980),...

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