Sonidosaurus
Sonidosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Scientific classification | |
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
- ↑ Xu Xing; Zhang Xiaohong; Tan Qingei; Zhao Xijin; Tan Lin (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 Xing; Tan Qingwei; Wang Jianmin; Zhao Xijin; Tan Lin (2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" (pdf). Nature 447 (7146): 844–7. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..844X. doi:10.1038/nature05849. PMID 17565365.
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