Species: lii DONG, ZHOU & ZHANG, 1983
Etymology: In honor of hydrologist Li Bing, the magistrate who governed the Qin State of what is now Sichuan Province between 256-251 BC.

Holotype: IVPP V9065

Locality: Dashanpu (Dashanpu Dinosaur Quarry), lat. 29°5’N, long. 104°50’E, situated 11 km east of Zigong City, 250 km south of Chengdu, Hechuan County, Sichuan Basin, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China.

Horizon: Xaishaximiao (Shaximiao) Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian-Callovian Stage, Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Partial skeleton including 5 cervical vertebrae, 13 articulated dorsal vertebrae, a fragmentary sacral centrum, 2 caudal vertebrae, left radius, ulna and a single carpal, ilium, ischium, and pubis (weathered and fragmentary), left femur, tibia, fibula, astragalus and complete metatarsals although all but several phalanges are absent.

Referred material:

CHATTERJEE & ZHONG, 2002

ZG65430: A nearly complete skull including an intact braincase and lower jaw.

Shunosaurus lii (after ZHANG, 1988), ZG65430.

T5404: A complete postcranial skeleton.

DONG, PENG & DAXI, 1989

IVPP V7661, V7662, ZDM 5006, 5007, 5013a, 5035, 5047, 5051, 5053: Distal caudal vertebrae with clubs.

ZDM 5006

DONG & TANG, 1984

Numerous specimens, skulls and skeletons.

 

MA, DAI, TAN, LI, WANG, REN, MENG, ZHAO, WEI & XU, 2021

Locality: Pu'an Town, Yunyang County, Chongqing Municipality, China.

Locality: Dashanpun (Dashnapu Dinosaur Quarry), Zigong, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China.

Horizon: Lower Xaishaximiao (Shaximiao) Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian-Callovian Stage (DONG & TANG, 1984), Middle-Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

CLGPR V00007 (field number 17YP5010-S38): 5 incomplete dorsal vertebrae, 2 sacral vertebrae, 1 caudal vertebra, left and right scapulae and coracoids, left and right humeri, right ilium, left and right pubes, left and right ischia, left and right femora, right tibia and left fibula.

ZHENG, YANG, & PENG, 1984

Locality: Dashanpun (Dashnapu Dinosaur Quarry), Zigong, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China.

Horizon: Lower Xaishaximiao (Shaximiao) Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian-Callovian Stage (DONG & TANG, 1984), Middle-Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.
Note: Bajocian (CHEN et al. 1982), Lower Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

ZDM 5006 (field no. I-Q, provinical excavation team no. T5401): Skull and a nearly complete skeleton of a immature individual.
Note: Caudal club and spines, pathological?

Shunosaurus lii (after ZHANG, 1988), T5401.

ZDM 5003 (field no. II-A, provinical excavation team no. T5402): Fragmentary skeleton of a mature individual.

ZDM 5007 (field no. I-Z, provincial excavation team no. T5403): Skull and lower jaw.

ZDM 5008 (field no. provincial excavation team no. T 5404): A complete skeleton lacking the skull.

IVPP V 7261: Cranial fragments and postcranial skeleton.

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Species: ziliujingensis ZHANG?, 1995 (nomen nudum)
Etymology: In reference to the Ziliujing Formation.

Holotype:

Locality: Dashanpun (Dashnapu Dinosaur Quarry), Zigong City, lat. 29°5’N, long. 104°50’E, Sichuan (Szechwan) Province, China.

Horizon: Ziliujing (Xaishaximiao [Shaximiao]?) Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian-Callovian Stage, Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Skull and skeleton.
Note: This is the larger middle of the three Shunosaurus skeletons on display.

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Species: jiangyiensis FU & ZHANG, 2004
Etymology: In reference to Jiangyi, Yuanmou County, China.

Holotype: YJ 2001

Locality: Banqing, Jiangyi, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, China.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary skeleton.