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Sonidosaurus; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
(unranked):	Titanosauria
Genus:	Sonidosaurus; Xu et al., 2006
Species
	S. saihangaobiensis Xu et al., 2006 (type);

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Sonidosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006.

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-'''''Sonidosaurus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[sauropod]] [[dinosaur]] from the Late [[Cretaceous]]. It was a [[titanosaur]] which lived in what is now [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The [[type species]], ''Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis'', was described by [[Xu Xing|Xu]], Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006.  It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters (30) feet long.<ref name=XXetal06>{{cite journal |author=X. Xu |coauthors=X. Zhang; Q. Tan; X. Zhao; and L. Tan |year=2006 |title=A new titanosaurian sauropod from Late Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica |volume=80 |issue=1 |pages=20-26}}</ref> It was originally described as from the [[Erlian Formation]], but instead comes from the [[Iren Dabasu Formation]]; it was only slightly larger than the contemporaneous giant [[oviraptoridae|oviraptorid]] ''[[Gigantoraptor]]''.<ref name=XXetal07>{{cite journal |author=Xu, X. |coauthors=Tan, Q.; Wang, J.; Zhao, X.; and Tan, L. |year=2007 |title=A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China |journal=Nature |volume=online supplement |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/extref/nature05849-s1.pdf |format=pdf}}</ref>
+'''''Sonidosaurus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[sauropod]] [[dinosaur]] from the Late [[Cretaceous]]. It was a [[titanosaur]] which lived in what is now [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The [[type species]], ''Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis'', was described by [[Xu Xing|Xu]], Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006.
 ==References==
+* [http://www.thescelosaurus.com/saltasauridae.htm ''Sonidosaurus'' at ''Thescelosaurus''!]
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-==External links==
 * [http://www.dinosaurier-web.de/galery/pages_s/sonidosaurus.html ''Sonidosaurus'' at Dinosaurier-Web.de (in German)]
+{{portalpar|Dinosaurs}}
 [[Category:Dinosaurs of Asia]]