Euhelopus

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Euhelopus Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda Family: Euhelopodidae Romer, 1956 Genus: Euhelopus
Binomial name
Euhelopus zdanskyi Wiman, 1929

Euhelopus was a sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic in Shandong Province in China. A large herbivore, it weighed approximately 20 tons.

[edit] Discovery and Species

It was originally named Helopus "Marsh Foot" by Wiman in 1929, but this name already belonged to a bird. It was renamed Euhelopus in 1956 by Romer.

There is a plant genus (a grass) with the same name.

[edit] References

• Fastovsky DE, Weishampel DB (2005). "Sauropodomorpha:the big, the bizarre and the majestic", in Fastovsky DE, Weishampel DB: The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press, 229–264. ISBN 0-521-81172-4. 

[edit] External links

• Euhelopus in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ' Lair