Named By: | Alfred Romer in 1956 (originally named as Helopus by Carl Wiman in 1929) |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous, 129-113 Ma |
Location: | China - Shangdong Province |
Size: | Around 15 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Skull and partial skeleton |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropoda | Titanosauriformes | Euhelopodidae | |
Also known as: | | Helopus zdanskyi | |
Euhelopus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived between 129 and 113 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Shandong Province in China. It was a large quadrupedal herbivore. Unlike most other sauropods, Euhelopus had longer forelegs than hind legs. This discovery was paleontologically significant because it represented the first dinosaur scientifically investigated from China: seen in 1913, rediscovered in 1922, and excavated in 1923. Unlike most sauropod specimens, it has a relatively complete skull.