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Yuanmousaurus
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Yuanmousaurus is known from an incomplete skeleton.
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- Pronounced
- ywahn-moo-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Yuanmou (area where the type locality is) lizard
- Length
- 17m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Mid Jurassic
(180 - 159 million years ago) - Found in
- Peoples Republic of China
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Yuanmousaurus
- Named by
- Lü, Li, Ji, Wang, Zhang and Dong (2006)
- Type species
- jiangyiensis