This is an accepted version of this page Yizhousaurus (meaning "Yizhou lizard", after the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Region[1]) is a genus of basal sauropodiform dinosaurs which existed in what is now Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period.

[2] Although its name was revealed in a 2010 Geological Society of America abstract by Sankar Chatterjee, T. Wang, S.G. Pan, Z. Dong, X.C.

Wu, and Paul Upchurch,[2] it wasn't validly named and described until 2018.

It consists of a near-complete skull and lower jaw, 31 vertebrae (nine cervical, fourteen dorsal, three sacral and five caudal), shoulder and pelvic girdles, most of both forelimbs and both thighs.

The holotype was informally mentioned in a 2010 Geological Society of America abstract by Sankar Chatterjee, T. Wang, S.G. Pan, Z. Dong, X.C.