Bashunosaurus no longer a nomen nudum

[VD231991]

As I mentioned elsewhere in this forum, I was surprised to see Bashunosaurus mentioned a few times in the paper describing Yuzhoulong, because Olshevsky (2000) listed it as a nomen nudum due to the lack of a description or diagnosis in Li et al. (1999) despite those authors attributing the binomial Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis to "Kuang, 1996", and a paper by Kuang (2004) buried in the references list of the Yuzhoulong paper made me strongly suspect that it formally describes Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis because it is cited by the authors of the Yuzhoulong paper when they compare Yuzhoulong with Bashunosaurus. Now, thanks to a copy of the Kuang (2004) paper kindly provided to me by Ren Xin-Xin (one of the co-authors of the Yuzhoulong paper), I can confirm that Kuang (2004) formally named Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis as a new genus and species of sauropod, meaning that Bashunosaurus is no longer a nomen nudum (Gigantspinosaurus and Yingshanosaurus likewise were once thought to be nomina nuda until dinosaur gurus outside China became informed of the papers by Ouyang 1992 and Zhu 1994 formally naming Gigantspinosaurus and Yingshanosaurus as new taxa respectively). The PDF of the publication by Kuang (2004) describing Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis as a new taxon can be found at this link to let it be known to other people that Bashunosaurus is now known to have been officially named in 2004:
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/127871-bashunosaurus-paper/

References:
Kuang, X.W., 2004. A new Sauropoda from Kaijiang dinosaur fauna in middle Jurassic beds of North-Eastern Sichuan. pp. 40-46. In: Sun, J.W. (eds) Collection of the 90th anniversary of Tianjin museum of natural history. Tianjin, China: Tianjin Science and Technology Press.

Li K., Zhang, Y., and Cai K., 1999. The Characteristics of the Composition of the Trace Elements in Jurassic Dinosaur Bones and Red Beds in Sichuan Basin. Geological Publishing House, Beijing.

Olshevsky, G., 2000. An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continent. Mesozoic Meanderings 3:1-157.

[Faelrin]

Thanks for passing this information along.