Jiutaisaurus

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Jiutaisaurus
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Genus: Jiutaisaurus
Wu et al., 2006
Species
  • Jiutaisaurus xidiensis

Jiutaisaurus is the name given to a newly-described genus of dinosaur from the Quantou Formation of China. Jiutaisaurus was a sauropod which lived during the Cretaceous. The type species, Jiutaisaurus xidiensis, was described by Wu et al in 2006, and is based on eighteen vertebrae.

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