Back هويانغوصور Arabic হুয়ায়াঙ্গোসরাস Bengali/Bangla Huayangosaure Catalan Huayangosaurus Czech Huayangosaurus German Huayangosaurus taibaii Spanish هوایانگوسور Persian Huayangosaurus French הואיאנגוזאורוס HE Huayangosaurus Croatian
| Huayangosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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| Huayangosaurus reconstruction displayed in Hong Kong | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Stegosauria |
| Genus: | †Huayangosaurus Dong, Tang, and Zhou, 1982 |
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| †Huayangosaurus taibaii Dong, Tang, and Zhou, 1982
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Huayangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China. The name derives from "Huayang" (華陽), an alternate name for Sichuan (the province where it was discovered), and "saurus", meaning "lizard". It lived during the Bathonian to Callovian stages, around 165 million years ago, some 20 million years before its famous relative, Stegosaurus appeared in North America. At only approximately 4 metres (13 ft) long, it was also much smaller than its famous cousin. Found in the Lower Shaximiao Formation, Huayangosaurus shared the local Middle Jurassic landscape with the sauropods Shunosaurus, Datousaurus, Omeisaurus and Protognathosaurus, the ornithopod Xiaosaurus and the carnivorous Gasosaurus.[1]
- ^ Benton, Michael J. (2012). Prehistoric Life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 274–275. ISBN 978-0-7566-9910-9.