Pukyongosaurus

Pukyongosaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Reconstructed skeleton of Pukyongosaurus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Dinosauria
Order:Saurischia
Suborder:†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:†Sauropoda
Clade:†Titanosauriformes
Genus:†Pukyongosaurus
Dong et al., 2001
Type species
Pukyongosaurus millenniumi
Dong et al., 2001

Pukyongosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur that lived in South Korea during the Early Cretaceous period (Hauterivian - Barremian). It may have been closely related to Euhelopus, and is known from a series of vertebrae in the neck and back.[1] The characteristics that were originally used to distinguish this genus have been criticized as being either widespread or too poorly preserved to evaluate, rendering the genus an indeterminate nomen dubium among titanosauriforms.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Dong, Z.M.; Paik, I.S.; Kim, H.J. (2001). "A preliminary report on a sauropod from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Korea". In Deng, T.; Wang, Y. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Beijing: China Ocean Press. pp. 41–53.
  2. ↑ Park, J.-Y. (2016). "Comments on the validity of the taxonomic status of "Pukyongosaurus" (Dinosauria: Sauropoda)" (PDF). Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. 15: 27–32.


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