- Dongyangosaurus
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Dongyangosaurus
Temporal range: Late CretaceousScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda (unranked): Titanosauriformes Genus: Dongyangosaurus
Lu J. et al., 2008Species - D. sinensis Lu J. et al., 2008 (type)
Dongyangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zhejiang, China. The type species, described by Lu et al. in 2008, is D. sinensis.[1] Like other sauropods, Dongyangosaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]
References
- ^ Lu Junchang; Yoichi Azuma; Chen Rongjun; Zheng Wenjie; and Jin Xingsheng (2008). "A new titanosauriform sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 82 (2): 225–235.
- ^ Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 259–322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Categories:- Dinosaurs of Asia
- Cretaceous dinosaurs
- Titanosaurs
- Fossil taxa described in 2008
- Sauropodomorph stubs
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