Jiutaisaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jiutaisaurus (meaning "Jiutai lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Quantou Formation of Jilin, China.[1] Jiutaisaurus was a sauropod which lived during the Cretaceous. The type species, Jiutaisaurus xidiensis, was described by Wu et al. in 2006, and is based on eighteen vertebrae.[2][3] It probably lived alongside Changchunsaurus and Helioceratops.
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Jiutaisaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauriformes |
Genus: | †Jiutaisaurus Wu et al., 2006 |
Type species | |
†Jiutaisaurus xidiensis Wu et al., 2006 |
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