Yunnanosaurus Temporal range:
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Fossil jaw, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropodiformes |
Genus: | †Yunnanosaurus Young, 1942 |
Type species | |
†Yunnanosaurus huangi Young, 1942
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Other species | |
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Yunnanosaurus (/juːˌnænoʊˈsɔːrəs/ 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.