Tonganosaurus
Name:
Tonganosaurus
(Tong'an lizard).
Phonetic: Tong-an-sor-us.
Named By: K. Li, C.-Y. Yang, J. Liu
& Z.-X. Wang - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Mamenchisauridae.
Species: T. hei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Possibly up to 12 meters long.
Known locations: China, Sichuan - Yimen
Formation.
Time period: Early Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial limbs and twenty
vertebrae.
Tonganosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the early Jurassic. Tonganosaurus is seen as being similar to Omeisaurus, and both are classified as mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaurs (similar to Mamenchisaurus).
Further reading
- [A new sauropod from the Lower Jurassic of Huili, Sichuan,
China]. -Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(3):185-202 - K.
Li, C.-Y. Yang, J. Liu & Z.-X. Wang - 2010.
- Systematic analysis method of Sauropod: a case study of 486
Tonganosaurus hei. - Acta Geologica Sinica, 87,
1826-1833. - C. Y. Yang
- 2013.
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