Huabeisaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0462Huiquanpu Fm., China

Huabeisaurus

DV-0462

Lived
101 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
Found in
China
Named by
Pang and Cheng 2000

Field notes

About Huabeisaurus

Huabeisaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Euhelopodidae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Huabeisaurus, from China. Its fossils come from the Huiquanpu Formation. It was named by Pang and Cheng in 2000.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Euhelopodidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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