Ferganasaurus
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Ferganasaurus verzilini Alifanov & Averianov, 2003 |
Ferganasaurus was a genus of dinosaur first formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov. The type species is Ferganasaurus verzilini. It was a sauropod similar to Rhoetosaurus. The fossils were discovered in 1966 in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan and date to the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic.