Peishansaurus
| Peishansaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Peishansaurus
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| Species: | P. philemys
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| Peishansaurus philemys Bohlin, 1953
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Peishansaurus (PAY-SHAHN-SAWR-us[needs IPA] - meaning "north mountain lizard") was a genus of plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage), roughly 97.5-66 million years ago.
Peishansaurus was named by the Swedish paleontologist Anders Birger Bohlin in 1953 from a fragmentary jaw with some teeth. The type species is Peishansaurus philemys. Peishansaurus is named after Peishan North Mountain in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The specific name philemys means "lover of turtles" from the Greek φιλέω, phileo, "to love", and ἐμύς, emys, "water turtle" in reference to the fact that at the site also the turtle Peishanemys latipons was found, a member of the Dermatemydidae.
Peishansaurus is a doubtful genus; it is either an ankylosaur or a pachycephalosaur, but further details are unknown.
External references
- Dinosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide
- Thescelosaurus! page containing information about Peishansaurus
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