Yunnanosaurus
Yunnanosaurus huangi
Yunnanosaurus ( 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.
- Family
- Yunnanosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Jurassic (196 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 7.0 m
- Weight
- 500 kg
- Type locality
- Yunnan, China
- Holotype
- IVPP V 20
- PBDB
- txn:56630