Dongyangosaurus

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Dongyangosaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
(unranked) Titanosauriformes
Genus: Dongyangosaurus
Lu J. et al., 2008
Species
  • D. sinensis Lu J. et al., 2008 (type)

Dongyangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zhejiang, China. The type species, described by Lu et al. in 2008, is D. sinensis.[1] Like other sauropods, Dongyangosaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lu Junchang; Yoichi Azuma; Chen Rongjun; Zheng Wenjie; and Jin Xingsheng (2008). "A new titanosauriform sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 82 (2): 225-235. 
  2. ^ 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. 
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