Location : China

Bellusaurus was a small, long-necked (sauropod) dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It belonged to the same family as Cetiosaurus  , and it is not very well known, although parts of 17 different Bellusauruses were found in one spot.

Discovered in "Dinosaur valley" in 1954 by oil-seeking geologists, the Bellusaurus remains were found in a bone bed containing 17 individuals. The position of the remains suggests that a herd of these dinosaurs may have been caught in a flash flood and that the smaller individuals were killed. It is not known how large they may have grown. The known specimens are quite small for mid-Jurassic sauropods.