Huabeisaurus

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Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Family: Titanosauridae
Genus: Huabeisaurus
Species: H. allocotus
Binomial name
Huabeisaurus allocotus
Pang & Cheng, 2000

Huabeisaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a sauropod which lived in what is present-day China. The type species, Huabeisaurus allocotus, was first described by Pang and Cheng in 2000. The dinosaur closely resembles Opisthocoelicaudia, and was a quadrupal herbivore. Huabeisaurus is known from numerous different remains, which include teeth, partial limbs and vertebrae.

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