Liubangosaurus
"Liubang lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Liubangosaurus 26 m (85 ft) long
as long as 15 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 26 m (85 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–113 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Liubangosaurus (meaning “Liubang lizard”, after Liubang village, the holotype locality) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG 8152, five complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae that were collected from the Xinlong Formation in Fusui County, Guangxi Province. The type species is L. hei, which honors He Wenjian, who discovered the site where Liubangosaurus was discovered.
What we know
- Named by Mo, Xu, & Buffetaut, 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 26 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Liubangosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.