Tonganosaurus
| Tonganosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Family: | †Mamenchisauridae |
| Genus: | †Tonganosaurus Li et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †T. hei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tonganosaurus hei Li et al., 2010
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Tonganosaurus (named for the town of Tong'an from where it was found) is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, similar to Omeisaurus. It is known from one specimen consisting of twenty vertebrae, a front limb and pectoral girdle, and a complete hind limb with partial hip. It lived during the early Jurassic period (Yimen Formation) in what is now China. It was first named by Li Kui, Yang Chun-Yan, Liu Jian and Wang Zheng-Xin in 2010 and the type species is Tonganosaurus hei.[1]
References
- ^ "A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Huili, Sichuan, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 48 (3): 185–202. 2010.
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