Euhelopus
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Euhelopus was a sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic in Shandong Province in China. A large herbivore, it weighed approximately 20 tons.
[edit] Discovery and Species
It was originally named Helopus "Marsh Foot" by Wiman in 1929, but this name already belonged to a bird. It was renamed Euhelopus in 1956 by Romer.
There is a plant genus (a grass) with the same name.
[edit] References
- Fastovsky DE, Weishampel DB (2005). “Sauropodomorpha:the big, the bizarre and the majestic”, Fastovsky DE, Weishampel DB: The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press, 229–264. ISBN 0-521-81172-4.
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