Ferganasaurus

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Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Genus: Ferganasaurus
Species: F. verzilini
Binomial name
Ferganasaurus verzilini
Alifanov & Averianov, 2003

Ferganasaurus was a genus of dinosaur first formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov. The type species is Ferganasaurus verzilini. It was a sauropod similar to Rhoetosaurus. The fossils were discovered in 1966 in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan and date to the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic.

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