Ruyangosaurus
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| Ruyangosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Ruyangosaurus
Lu et al., 2009
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Ruyangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Late Cretaceous Mangchuan Formation of China. The type species is R. giganteus, described in 2009 by a group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Henan Geological Museum.[1]
Along with Huanghetitan and Daxiatitan, Ruyangosaurus is among the largest dinosaurs discovered in Cretaceous Asia. Ruyangosaurus was described as being from the "early Late Cretaceous".[2]
