Sonidosaurus
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| Sonidosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| (unranked): | Titanosauria |
| Genus: | Sonidosaurus Xu et al., 2006 |
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Sonidosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006. It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters (30 ft) long.[1] It was found in the Iren Dabasu Formation; it was only slightly larger than the contemporaneous giant oviraptorid Gigantoraptor.[2]
References
- ↑ X. Xu; X. Zhang; Q. Tan; X. Zhao; and L. Tan (2006). "A new titanosaurian sauropod from Late Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China". Acta Geologica Sinica 80 (1): 20–26. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2006.tb00790.x.
- ↑ Xu, X.; Tan, Q.; Wang, J.; Zhao, X.; and Tan, L. (2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" (pdf). Nature 447 (7146). Bibcode:2007Natur.447..844X. doi:10.1038/nature05849. PMID 17565365.
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