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Liubangosaurus

Say it: lee-oo-BANG-oh-SORE-us

Name means: “Liubang lizard, after Liubang village where it was found”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Cretaceous

Liubangosaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It is known from only five back bones, but scientists think it was one of the biggest dinosaurs around.1 2

Lived

121 to 113 million years ago3

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Liubang village, near Nanning, Guangxi Province, China1

Food

Plants2

Length

up to 26 m1

estimate by Molina-Pérez and Larramendi

Weight

up to 26 tonnes1

Height

up to 5.4 m1

at the shoulder

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

as long as 6 cars parked in a rowas long as 140 bananas end to endas heavy as 17 carsas heavy as 4 elephantsas heavy as 5200 watermelonsas tall as 2.5 doors stacked up

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Fun facts

Liubangosaurus is known from only five back bones that were still connected when found.1

Its name honors Liubang village and He Wenjian, who discovered the site.1

The largest of its five vertebrae is 710 mm (28 inches) tall.1

Liubangosaurus lived alongside other dinosaurs like the sauropod Fusuisaurus and spinosaurids.1

Its back bones have a unique Y-shape when seen from the side.1

The bones were found in the Xinlong Formation, which was once a wetland with rivers and lakes.1

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Scientific name: Liubangosaurus
Named by: Mo et al. 20103
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Somphospondyli3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 121 to 113 million years (Aptian)3
Rock formations: Xinlong3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Sauropod bones were first found at Liubang Quarry in 2001. In 2010, Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing, and Eric Buffetaut named the new species Liubangosaurus hei based on five articulated vertebrae.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how Liubangosaurus is related to other sauropods because only a few bones have been found.1

Where the facts come from

Liubangosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Liubangosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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