[D] Euhelopus zdanskyi [Su] [T]
Describer
Wiman, 1929
Time
Jurassic Late ?Kimmeridgian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Euhelopodidae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Meng-Yin Formation, Shandong, China
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Euhelopus
Length
10 meter
Info
Typespecies - Skull
Euhelopus (Romer, 1956) > Euhelopus zdanskyi (Wiman, 1929) = Helopus zdanskyi (Wiman, 1929)
Skull and partial postcranial skeleton, additional fragmentary skeleton.
Euhelopus zdanski (“good marsh foot\\\\\\\"), first discovered in the 1920\\\\\\\'s shows similarities with Camarasaurus but had a longer neck (5 meter, 19 vertebrae’s) and nose, the large nostrils were on top of its head. The teeth grew just as with Camarasaurus around its jaws, other dinosaurs of this type had teeth growing only in front the teeth were larger than those of Diplodocus. Both Camarasaurus and Euhelopus were camarasaurid (chambered lizard) dinosaurs, with hollow chambers in the backbone.
The forlimbs were as long as the hindlimbs a unusual feature for a camarasaurid which was its original family classification. Further studies have determined that members of this genus, as well as other Chinese sauropods from this time, such as Mamenchisaurus, share enough unique characteristics to constitute a separate sauropod family named Euhelopodidae
Wiman, 1929
Time
Jurassic Late ?Kimmeridgian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Euhelopodidae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Meng-Yin Formation, Shandong, China
Fall under
Euhelopus
Length
10 meter
Info
Typespecies - Skull
Euhelopus (Romer, 1956) > Euhelopus zdanskyi (Wiman, 1929) = Helopus zdanskyi (Wiman, 1929)
Skull and partial postcranial skeleton, additional fragmentary skeleton.
Euhelopus zdanski (“good marsh foot\\\\\\\"), first discovered in the 1920\\\\\\\'s shows similarities with Camarasaurus but had a longer neck (5 meter, 19 vertebrae’s) and nose, the large nostrils were on top of its head. The teeth grew just as with Camarasaurus around its jaws, other dinosaurs of this type had teeth growing only in front the teeth were larger than those of Diplodocus. Both Camarasaurus and Euhelopus were camarasaurid (chambered lizard) dinosaurs, with hollow chambers in the backbone.
The forlimbs were as long as the hindlimbs a unusual feature for a camarasaurid which was its original family classification. Further studies have determined that members of this genus, as well as other Chinese sauropods from this time, such as Mamenchisaurus, share enough unique characteristics to constitute a separate sauropod family named Euhelopodidae