Fossil of new dinosaur found in Chongqing

Fossil remains of a new genus of plant-eating dinosaur — Bashanosaurus primitivus — found in Chongqing are those of a stegosaurus that roamed the earth around 169 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period, a scientific paper said recently. The animal is the oldest of its kind to be discovered on the continent, suggesting that stegosaurs may have originated in Asia.

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