Euhelopus
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| phylum | Chordata | Euhelopus is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived between 129 and 113 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Shandong Province in China. It was a large quadrupedal herbivore, it weighed approximately 15-20 tonnes and attained an adult length of 15 m (49 ft) Unlike most other sauropods, Euhelopus had longer forelegs than hind legs. This discovery was paleontologically significant because it represented the first dinosaur described from China: seen in 1913, rediscovered in 1922, and excavated in 1923. Unlike most sauropod specimens, it has a relatively complete skull.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| clade | Dinosauria | |
| Suborder | †Sauropodomorpha | |
| family | †Euhelopodidae | |
| genus | †Euhelopus | |
| species | E. zdanskyi | |
| Temporal range | Early Cretaceous |
