Mongolosaurus
Sign in to saveMongolosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous of China.
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- Parent taxon
- Titanosauria
- Image
- Mongolosaurus haplodon.jpg
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- taxon name
- Mongolosaurus
- Commons category
- Mongolosaurus
- start time
- 115000000-
- end time
- 108000000-
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- taxon rank
- genus
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Mongolosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous of China.
==Discovery and systematics== In 1928 a team from the American Museum of Natural History, headed by Roy Chapman Andrews, at On Gong Gol near Hukongwulong in Inner Mongolia, in Quarry 714 discovered a sauropod tooth. In 1933 Charles W. Gilmore, based on this fossil, named and described the type species Mongolosaurus haplodon. The generic name refers to Mongolia. The specific name is derived from Greek haploos, "single", and odon, "tooth".
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