Ruyangosaurus

Ruyangosaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Genus: Ruyangosaurus
Lu et al., 2009
Species

Ruyangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Late Cretaceous Mangchuan Formation of China. The type species is R. giganteus, described in 2009 by a group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Henan Geological Museum.[1]

Along with Huanghetitan and Daxiatitan, Ruyangosaurus is among the largest dinosaurs discovered in Cretaceous Asia. Ruyangosaurus was described as being from the "early Late Cretaceous".[2]

See also

References

  1. Lü J, Xu L, Jia S, Zhang X, Zhang J, Yang L, You H, Ji Q. (2009). "A new gigantic sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China". Geological Bulletin of China 28(1), 1-10.
  2. ibid.
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