Silutitan
Euhelopodid sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of China.
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Silutitan is a genus of euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. The type and only species is Silutitan sinensis. Its fossils were discovered in a Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Hami region, preserved in lake sediments.
Scientific classification
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassReptilia
- CladeDinosauria
- CladeSaurischia
- Clade†Sauropodomorpha
- Clade
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- Family†Euhelopodidae
- GenusSilutitan
Named by Wang et al., 2021
Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Silutitan (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Type species
- Silutitan sinensis
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- Wikipedia: Silutitan (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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