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DONGYANGOSAURUS
(dong-yang-o-sore-us)
meaning: "Dongyang lizard"
Dongyangosaurus
Named By: Lu Junchang Yoichi Azuma Chen Rongjun Zheng Wenjie & Jin Xingsheng in 2008
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Location: China, Zhejiang Province - Fangyan Formation
Size: Uncertain but estimated to be somewhere about 15 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial but articulated postcranial skeleton comprising 10 dorsal (back), and two caudal (tail) vertebrae as well as a complete pelvis
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropoda | Titanosauria | Saltasauridae |
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Dongyangosaurus is a genus of Saltasaurid sauropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous. The only species is Dongyangosaurus sinensis, from which only a single fragmentary skeleton is known, coming from the Zhejiang province of eastern China. Like other sauropods, Dongyangosaurus would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.

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