Bellusaurus
Extinct species of reptile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bellusaurus (meaning "Beautiful lizard", from Vulgar Latin bellus 'beautiful' (masculine form) and Ancient Greek sauros 'lizard') was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)[1] which measured about 4.8 metres (16 ft) long. Its fossils were found in Shishugou Formation rocks in the northeastern Junggar Basin in China.
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Bellusaurus | |
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Skull reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Eusauropoda |
Genus: | †Bellusaurus Dong, 1990 |
Species: | †B. sui |
Binomial name | |
†Bellusaurus sui Dong, 1990 | |
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