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Dongbeititan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Jehol Group of Beipiao, Liaoning, China. It is based on a partial postcranial skeleton including bones from the limbs, shoulder and pelvic girdles, and vertebrae. Its describers suggested it was as a basal titanosauriform, not as derived as Gobititan or Jiutaisaurus, but more derived than Euhelopus, Fusuisaurus, and Huanghetitan. The type species is D. dongi, and it is the first sauropod from the Jehol Group, which includes the well-known Yixian Formation.[1] Like other sauropods, Dongbeititan would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]
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- ^ Wang, X.; You, H.; Meng, Q.; Gao, C.; Chang, X.; and Liu, J. (2007). "Dongbeititan dongi, the first sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group of western Liaoning Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 81 (6): 911-916.
- ^ Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 259-322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
