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Yunnanosaurus

Yunnanosaurus
Temporal range:
Fossil jaw, Tianjin Natural History Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropodiformes
Genus: Yunnanosaurus
Young, 1942
Type species
Yunnanosaurus huangi
Young, 1942
Other species
  • Y. youngi Lu et al., 2007
  • Y. robustus? Young, 1951

Yunnanosaurus (/jˌnænˈsɔːrəs/ yoo-NAN-oh-SOR-əs) is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived approximately 199 to 183 million years ago in what is now the Yunnan Province, in China, for which it was named. Yunnanosaurus was a large sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could also walk bipedally, and ranged in size from 7 meters (23 feet) long and 2 m (6.5 ft) high to 4 m (13 ft) high in the largest species.


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