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Sonidosaurus
| Sonidosaurus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Sonidosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, Sonidosaurus saihangaobiensis, was described by Xu, Zhang, Tan, Zhao, and Tan in 2006. It was a small titanosaur, about 9 meters (30 ft) long.[1] It was found in the Iren Dabasu Formation; it was only slightly larger than the contemporaneous giant oviraptorid Gigantoraptor.[2]
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- ^ X. Xu; X. Zhang; Q. Tan; X. Zhao; and L. Tan (2006). "A new titanosaurian sauropod from Late Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China". Acta Geologica Sinica 80 (1): 20-26.
- ^ Xu, X.; Tan, Q.; Wang, J.; Zhao, X.; and Tan, L. (2007). "A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China" (pdf). Nature online supplement. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/extref/nature05849-s1.pdf.
