Yunnanosaurus
| Yunnanosaurus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Fossil jaw, Tianjin Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropodiformes |
| Genus: | †Yunnanosaurus Young, 1942 |
| Type species | |
| †Yunnanosaurus huangi Young, 1942 | |
| Other species | |
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Yunnanosaurus (/juːˌnænoʊˈsɔːrəs/ yoo-NAN-oh-SOR-əs) is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived approximately 199 to 183 million years ago in what is now the Yunnan Province, in China, for which it was named. Yunnanosaurus was a large sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could also walk bipedally, and ranged in size from 7 meters (23 feet) long and 2 m (6.5 ft) high to 4 m (13 ft) high in the largest species.