Sonidosaurus
"Sonid lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sonidosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (93.9–83.6 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Sonidosaurus (meaning “Sonid lizard”, after Sonid, the large geographical area that includes the type locality) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now Inner Mongolia. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006. It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters (30 ft) long. It was first discovered in the Saihangaobi, Iren Dabasu (Erlian) Formation, in 2001 in a quarry which would later yield the remains of Gigantoraptor.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2006.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sonidosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.