Pukyongosaurus

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Pukyongosaurus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda (unranked) Titanosauria Genus: Pukyongosaurus Dong et al., 2001
Species
P. millenniumi Dong et al., 2001 (type)

Puckyongosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur that lived in Korea during the Early Cretaceous period. It was closely related to Euhelopus, and is known from a series of vertebrae in the neck and back.

[edit] References

• Dong Zhiming, Paik In Sung & Kim Hyun Joo (2001). "A preliminary report on a sauropod from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Korea." Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (eds.: Deng Tao & Wang Yuan): 41-53, 6 figs., 3 pls.; Beijing (China Ocean Press).