Xiaosaurus
| Xiaosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Neornithischia |
| Genus: | †Xiaosaurus Dong & Tang, 1983 |
| Species: | †X. dashanpensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Xiaosaurus dashanpensis Dong & Tang, 1983
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Xiaosaurus ("dawn lizard", /ʃaʊˈsɔːrəs/), is a genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the middle Jurassic (approximately 170.3 to 163.5 million years ago) of what is now the Sichuan Basin of China.