Ferganasaurus
Sign in to saveFerganasaurus (meaning "Fergana Valley lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan, which dates to the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic. It was formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov as the type species Ferganasaurus verzilini. It is believed to be similar to Rhoetosaurus.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 441 inbound references to Ferganasaurus, and connects out to Sauropodomorpha, Rebbachisauridae and Sauropoda.
Vinony files it under Callovian dinosaurs, Dinosaur genera and Dinosaurs of Asia.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Cetiosauridae
Show 3 more facts
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Ferganasaurus
- time period
- Middle Jurassic
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Discovery and naming
- Description
- References
- External links
Ferganasaurus (meaning "Fergana Valley lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan, which dates to the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic. It was formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov as the type species Ferganasaurus verzilini. It is believed to be similar to Rhoetosaurus.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype, PIN N 3042/1 (two dorsal and sixteen caudal vertebrae, a pelvis and limb bones), was discovered in 1966 by Kurzanov and Rhozdestvensky in Middle Jurassic (Callovian)-aged rocks from the Balabansai Formation, Kyrgyzstan, but it was subsequently lost with only drawings of the holotype remaining. A 2000 expedition into the Balabansai Formation yielded a second specimen of Ferganasaurus, but despite this new material, and the drawings of the originals, no cranial material has ever been attributed to Ferganasaurus. In 2003, the species Ferganasaurus verzilini was described by Alifanov & Averianov.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferganasaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.