Chiayusaurus

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Chiayüsaurus (original spelling, now obsolete)

Etymology

From Mandarin 嘉裕 (Jiāyù) (of Jiayuguan) + -saurus.

Proper noun

†Chiayusaurus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the infraorder Sauropoda – a sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic or Cretaceous of China.
   • 2001, Spencer G. Lucas, “Cretaceous”, in Chinese Fossil Vertebrates‎^[1], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 169:

     P. neimongoliensis Russell & Zhao is from the Ejinhoro Formation of Nei Monggol, where it co-occurs with Wuerhosaurus and cf. Chiayusaurus (Russell and Zhao 1996).