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Euhelopodidae

Ruyangosaurus giganteus

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ruyangosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Ruyangosaurus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Euhelopodidae

Ruyangosaurus (Ruyang County lizard) is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Early Cretaceous Haoling Formation of China. The type species is R. giganteus, described in 2009 by Lü Junchang et al.

What we know

  • Named by Lu et al., 2009.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Ruyangosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.