Qinlingosaurus
genus of reptiles (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qinlingosaurus is a genus of herbivorous sauropod from the late Cretaceous, one of the last in Asia. The fossil evidence is very limited: it is only an ilium, ischium and three vertebrae.
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Qinlingosaurus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Family: | †incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Qinlingosaurus Xue et al., 1996 |
Species: | †Q. luonanensis |
Binomial name | |
Qinlingosaurus luonanensis Xue et al., 1996 | |
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The type species is Qinlingosaurus luonanensis. The generic name comes from where the first fossils were found in the Qinling mountain range in China.[1]