Liubangosaurus

Extinct genus of dinosaurs

Liubangosaurus
Temporal range: 125–113 Ma
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Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Somphospondyli
Genus: Liubangosaurus
Mo, Xu & Buffetaut, 2010
Species:
L. hei
Binomial name
Liubangosaurus hei
Mo, Xu & Buffetaut, 2010

Liubangosaurus (meaning "Liubang lizard", after the name of the holotype locality) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China. The type and only species is Liubangosaurus hei, first described by Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut in 2010. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae that were collected from the Xinlong Formation in Fusui County, Guangxi Province. Mo et al. (2010) found that Liubangosaurus belonged to the clade Eusauropoda.[1]

A 2013 comprehensive analysis of basal titanosauriforms found Liubangosaurus to nest in the Somphospondyli, either in Euhelopodidae or Saltasauridae.[2]

References

  1. ^ Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut (2010). "A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 84 (6): 1328–1335. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00331.x. S2CID 140687733.
  2. ^ Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul; Barnes, Rosie N.; Mateus, Octávio (2013). "Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 168 (1): 98–206. doi:10.1111/zoj.12029. ISSN 1096-3642.
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