Liubangosaurus
Liubangosaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It is known from only five back bones, but scientists think it was one of the biggest dinosaurs around.12
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Fun facts
Liubangosaurus is known from only five back bones that were still connected when found.1
Its name honors Liubang village and He Wenjian, who discovered the site.1
The largest of its five vertebrae is 710 mm (28 inches) tall.1
Liubangosaurus lived alongside other dinosaurs like the sauropod Fusuisaurus and spinosaurids.1
Its back bones have a unique Y-shape when seen from the side.1
The bones were found in the Xinlong Formation, which was once a wetland with rivers and lakes.1
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- Scientific name
- Liubangosaurus
- Named by
- Mo et al. 20103
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Somphospondyli3
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
- Age of the rocks
- 121 to 113 million years (Aptian)3
- Rock formations
- Xinlong3
- Countries
- China3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Sauropod bones were first found at Liubang Quarry in 2001. In 2010, Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing, and Eric Buffetaut named the new species Liubangosaurus hei based on five articulated vertebrae.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Liubangosaurus is related to other sauropods because only a few bones have been found.1
Where the facts come from
- Liubangosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Liubangosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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