| Bellusaurus Temporal range: Oxfordian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Eusauropoda |
| Genus: | †Bellusaurus Dong, 1990 |
| Species: | †B. sui
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| †Bellusaurus sui Dong, 1990
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Bellusaurus (meaning "Beautiful lizard", from Vulgar Latin bellus 'beautiful' (masculine form) and Ancient Greek sauros 'lizard') was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)[1] which measured about 4.8 metres (16 ft) long. Its fossils were found in Shishugou Formation rocks in the northeastern Junggar Basin in China.
- ^ Moore, Andrew J.; Mo, Jinyou; Clark, James M.; Xu, Xing (2018-06-01). "Cranial anatomy of Bellusaurus sui (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of northwest China and a review of sauropod cranial ontogeny". PeerJ. 6: e4881. doi:10.7717/peerj.4881. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5985764. PMID 29868283.