Tonganosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | Dinosauria |
Order: | Saurischia |
Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Infraorder: | †Sauropoda |
Family: | †Mamenchisauridae |
Genus: | †Tonganosaurus Li et al., 2010 |
Species: | †T. hei |
Binomial name | |
Tonganosaurus hei Li et al., 2010 |
Tonganosaurus (named for the town of Tong'an from where it was found) is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, similar to Omeisaurus. It is known from one specimen consisting of twenty vertebrae, a front limb and pectoral girdle, and a complete hind limb with partial hip. It lived during the early Jurassic period (Yimen Formation) in what is now China. It was first named by Li Kui, Yang Chun-Yan, Liu Jian and Wang Zheng-Xin in 2010 and the type species is Tonganosaurus hei.[1]