''Fushanosaurus'' (meaning "Fushan lizard", after the Fushan Museum where its remains are stored) is a genus of basal

titanosauriform Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs. Macronarians are named after the large diameter of the nasal opening of their skull, known as the external naris, which exceeded the size of the orbit, the skull opening where the eye is located (henc ...

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

from the

Shishugou Formation The Shishugou Formation () is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China. Its strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Di ...

from

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in China. The

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and only species is ''Fushanosaurus qitaiensis''. It is solely known from the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of seve ...

specimen (FH000101), which consists of a complete right femur. Using "Huanghetitan" ''ruyangensis'' and '' Daxiatitan'' as a basis, ''Fushanosaurus'' was estimated to have been approximately long, which would then make it one of the longest known dinosaurs. It was published in the journal Global Geology.

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