Liubangosaurus (meaning "Liubang lizard", after Liubang village, the holotype locality) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China. The type and only species is Liubangosaurus hei, first described by Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut in 2010. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae that were collected from the Xinlong Formation in Fusui County, Guangxi Province. Mo et al. (2010) found that Liubangosaurus belonged to the clade Eusauropoda.[1]
| Liubangosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Genus: | †Liubangosaurus Mo, Xu & Buffetaut, 2010 |
| Species: | †L. hei
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| †Liubangosaurus hei Mo, Xu & Buffetaut, 2010
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A 2013 comprehensive analysis of basal titanosauriforms found Liubangosaurus to nest in the Somphospondyli, either in Euhelopodidae or Saltasauridae.[2]
References
edit- ^ Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut (2010). "A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 84 (6): 1328–1335. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00331.x. S2CID 140687733.
- ^ Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul; Barnes, Rosie N.; Mateus, Octávio (2013). "Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 168 (1): 98–206. doi:10.1111/zoj.12029. ISSN 1096-3642.
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