Dongbeititan
Name:
Dongbeititan
(Dongbei titan).
Phonetic: Dong-bey-ty-tan.
Named By: X. Wang, H. You, Q. Meng, C.
Gao, X. Chang & J. Liu - 2007.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Macronaria.
Species: D. dongi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Liaoning Province -
Yixian Formation.
Time period: Barremian/Aptian of the early
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton.
Dongbeititan is a genus of macronarian sauropod that lived in China during the early Cretaceous. As a macrocnarian, Dongbeititan would have been similar in form to genera such as Lusotitan, Janenshcia and Daanosaurus.
Further reading
- Dongbeititan dongi, the first sauropod
dinosaur from the Lower
Cretaceous Jehol Group of western Liaoning Province, China. -
Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 81 (6): 911–916.
- X. Wang, H. You, Q. Meng, C. Gao, X. Chang,
J. Liu - 2007.
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