Pukyongosaurus
| Pukyongosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton of Pukyongosaurus. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| (unranked): | Titanosauria |
| Genus: | Pukyongosaurus Dong et al., 2001 |
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Pukyongosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur that lived in South Korea during the Early Cretaceous period (Hauterivian - Barremian). It was closely related to Euhelopus, and is known from a series of vertebrae in the neck and back.
References
- Dong Zhiming, Paik In Sung & Kim Hyun Joo (2001). "A preliminary report on a sauropod from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Korea." Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (eds.: Deng Tao & Wang Yuan): 41-53, 6 figs., 3 pls.; Beijing (China Ocean Press).
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