Sanpasaurus

Sanpa lizard

• Sanpa · Chinese place name · a locality in Sichuan, China
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines "Sanpa", a locality in Sichuan Province, China, where the fossils were found, with the Greek word for "lizard". It was named by the Chinese palaeontologist C.C. Young in 1944 for the type species Sanpasaurus yaoi.

Named by

Young

Year named

1944

Found in

Sichuan, China

The material is fragmentary, and I believe the genus is usually treated as a doubtful name (nomen dubium) of an uncertain sauropodomorph/sauropod. Check this status and the age of the fossils against a current source, since I'm not certain of either.