Outline: a typical sauropod
Huabeisaurus
"North China lizard"
- Lived
- 101 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Pang and Cheng 2000
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Huabeisaurus
What it was like
Huabeisaurus was a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from many bones of one animal, including limbs, backbones and teeth.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern China. Its bones come from the Huiquanpu Formation, where it shared the land with the hadrosaur Datonglong.
How it was found
Pang and Cheng named Huabeisaurus in 2000, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Euhelopodidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: Q. Pang and Z. Cheng. 2000. A new family of sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 74(2):117-125