Huabeisaurus (meaning "
North China lizard") was a
genus of
dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous (
Campanian stage, around 75 million years ago). It was a
sauropod which lived in what is present-day northern
China. The
type species,
Huabeisaurus allocotus, was first described by Pang and Cheng in 2000. The dinosaur closely resembles
Opisthocoelicaudia, and was a
quadrupal herbivore.
Huabeisaurus is known from numerous remains, which include teeth, partial limbs and vertebrae. The discoverers erected a new family for the genus,
Huabeisauridae, although this family name is not widely used amongst paleontologists.
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