Daanosaurus
Daanosaurus was a genus of dinosaur. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod which lived during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Tithonian stage, about 163 - 145 mya). It lived in what is now China (Sichuan Province), and was similar to Bellusaurus.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Family: | †Brachiosauridae |
| Genus: | †Daanosaurus Ye, Gao, & Jiang, 2005 |
| Type species | |
| Daanosaurus zhangi Ye, Gao, & Jiang, 2005 | |
The type species, described in 2005, is Daanosaurus zhangi.[1] Adult size is unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
References
- Ye, Y.; Gao, Y.; Jiang, S. (2005). "A new genus of sauropod from Zigong, Sichuan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 43 (3): 175–181.
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