Dongyangosaurus
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Dongyangosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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Dongyangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Zhejiang, China. The type species, described by Lu et al. in 2008, is D. sinensis.[1] Like other sauropods, Dongyangosaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]
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- ^ Lu Junchang; Yoichi Azuma; Chen Rongjun; Zheng Wenjie; and Jin Xingsheng (2008). "A new titanosauriform sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 82 (2): 225-235.
- ^ Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 259-322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.