Ultrasaurus
Genus of large, plant-eating dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the dubious dinosaur genus from South Korea. For the invalid dinosaur genus from Colorado, see Ultrasauros.
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Ultrasaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Genus: | †Ultrasaurus Kim, 1983[1] |
Species: | †U. tabriensis |
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†Ultrasaurus tabriensis Kim, 1983[1] | |
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Ultrasaurus (meaning "ultra lizard"[2]) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur discovered by Haang Mook Kim in South Korea. However, the name was first used unofficially (as a nomen nudum) in 1979 by Jim Jensen to describe a set of giant dinosaur bones he discovered in the United States. Because Kim published the name for his specimen before Jensen could do so officially, Jensen renamed his specimen Ultrasauros. Jensen's giant sauropod was later found to be a chimera, and the type remains are now assigned to Supersaurus.