سونیدوسور
Sign in to saveSonidosaurus (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.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Titanosauridae
- Image
- Sonidosaurus.jpg
- Length
- 9.0
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- taxon name
- Sonidosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Sonidosaurus
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- China
- main food source
- herbivore
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