Family
Valid Extinct

Yunnanosauridae

Young 1942

Yunnanosaurus 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.

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Yunnanosauridae
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Jaw of Yunnanosaurus huangi on display at the Tianjin Natural History Museum. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Bagualosauria Unranked clade
Plateosauria Unranked clade
Anchisauria Unranked clade
Prosauropoda Unranked clade
Yunnanosauridae Family
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Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1942. Yunnanosaurus huangi Young (gen. et sp. nov.), a new Prosauropoda from the Red Beds at Lufeng, Yunnan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 22(1-2):63-104