Genus: Yandusaurus HE, 1979
Etymology: Chinese, yan “Salt”, Chinese, du, “capital”, and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Salt capital lizard.
= Honghesaurus [Anonymous] 1981 (sic)
= Hunhosaurus DONG, ZHOU & ZHANG, 1983 (sic)
= Yubasaruus HE, 1975? (sic)

Species: hongheensis HE, 1979
Etymology: In reference to Hongheba, Zigong, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China, where the specimen was discovered.

Holotype: GCC V 20501

Locality: Hongheba, Zigong, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China.

Horizon: Xiashaximaio Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian-Callovian Stage, Dogger Epoch, Early Late Jurassic.

Material: Maxilla, cervical vertebrae, fragmentary dorsal vertebrae, fragmentary ribs, fragmentary caudals, scapula, coracoid, humeri, right radius, metacarpal, proximal end of left femur, distal left tibia, proximal left and right fibula, fragmentary metacarpal, phalanges and ungual.