Jiutaisaurus Temporal range:
Early-
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | † Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | † Sauropoda |
Clade: | † Macronaria |
Clade: | † Titanosauriformes |
Genus: | †
Jiutaisaurus Wu et al., 2006 |
Type species | |
†Jiutaisaurus xidiensis Wu et al., 2006
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Jiutaisaurus (meaning " Jiutai lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Quantou Formation of Jilin, China. [1] Jiutaisaurus was a sauropod which lived during the Cretaceous. The type species, Jiutaisaurus xidiensis, was described by Wu et al. in 2006, and is based on eighteen vertebrae. [2] [3] It probably lived alongside Changchunsaurus and Helioceratops.