A New Gigantic Sauropod Dinosaur with the Deepest Known Body Cavity from the Cretaceous of Asia
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    A new species of sauropod dinosaur Huanghetitan ruyangensis is erected based on the following characters: deepest body cavity with a dorsal rib reaching at least 2.93 m long, anterior caudal vertebrae with mushroom-shaped neural spines. Based on this new specimen of Huanghetitan found in the early Late Cretaceous Mangchuan Formation of Ruyang, Henan Province, the family Huanghetitanidae fam. nov. is proposed as a new rank to include only the genus Huanghetitan You et al. 2006. At present, Huanghetitan includes two species: H. liujiaxiaensis You et al., 2006 and H, ruyangensis sp. nov. The systematic relationships of Huanghetitan among sauropod dinosaurs are briefly discussed.

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XU Li ZHANG Xingliao HU Weiyong WU Yanhua JIA Songhai JI Qiang.2007. A New Gigantic Sauropod Dinosaur with the Deepest Known Body Cavity from the Cretaceous of Asia[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),81(2):167-176

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  • Received:December 13,2006
  • Revised:February 12,2007
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