Gannansaurus sinensis
"Gannan lizard"
- Length
- 25 m (82 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (66.7–66 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gannansaurus (meaning “Gannan lizard”) is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur known from the latest Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Ganzhou Basin, Jiangxi Province of southern China. It is known from specimen GMNH F10001 which consists of a single, nearly complete dorsal vertebra and a mid-caudal vertebra. Gannansaurus was first named by Lü Junchang, Yi Laiping, Zhong Hui and Wei Xuefang in 2013 and the type species is Gannansaurus sinensis. Gannansaurus shares some characters with Euhelopus, indicating that it is more closely related to it rather than to other titanosauriforms.
What we know
- Named by Lü et al., 2013.
- Body length estimated at about 25 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gannansaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.