Ruyangosaurus

Ruyangosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Neosauropoda
Clade:	†Macronaria
Clade:	†Titanosauriformes
Genus:	Ruyangosaurus Lu et al., 2009
Species
R. giganteus Lu et al., 2009 (type)

Ruyangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Late Cretaceous Mangchuan Formation of China. The type species is R. giganteus, described in 2009 by a group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Henan Geological Museum.^[1]

Along with Huanghetitan and Daxiatitan, Ruyangosaurus is among the largest dinosaurs discovered in Cretaceous Asia. Ruyangosaurus was described as being from the "early Late Cretaceous".^[1]

References

1 2 Lü J, Xu L, Jia S, Zhang X, Zhang J, Yang L, You H, Ji Q. (2009). "A new gigantic sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China". Geological Bulletin of China 28(1), 1-10.

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