Asiatosaurus (meaning "Asian lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in Mongolia and China.[1] The type species is known only from teeth, making it difficult to rely on information until more specimens are found to expand our knowledge, and another species is known, also based on scant remains; both are now classified as nomina dubia.
| Asiatosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Holotype tooth of A. mongoliensis (AMNH 6264) seen from three different angles | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Genus: | †Asiatosaurus Osborn, 1924 |
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| †Asiatosaurus mongoliensis Osborn, 1924
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Species
editAsiatosaurus mongoliensis
editThe type species, A. mongoliensis, was described by Osborn, in 1924, based on AMNH 6264, a broken tooth from the Öösh Formation of Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia.[2] It was the first sauropod genus named from East-Asia.
cf. Asiatosaurus mongoliensis is known from the Shengjinkou Formation of China.[3]
Asiatosaurus kwangshiensis
editA. kwangshiensis, the second species, was described by Hou, Yeh and Zhao, in 1975 based on IVPP V4794, a tooth, three cervical vertebrae and multiple ribs from the Xinlong Formation of Guangxi, China. The genus was classified within Brachiosauridae by Hou et al. in 1975,[4] and considered a euhelopodid by Poropat et al. in 2022.[5]
References
edit- ^ P. Upchurch, P. M. Barrett, and P. Dodson. (2004). Sauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 259-322
- ^ Osborn, H.F. (1924). "Sauropoda and Theropoda from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia". American Museum Novitates (128): 1–7.
- ^ Dong (1973a) Dong ZM. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Wuerho District, Dsungar (Zunggar) Basin. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica. 1973a;11:1–7.
- ^ Hou, L.H.; Yeh, H.K.; Zhao, X.J. (1975). "Fossil reptiles from Fusui, Kwangshi" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 13 (1): 24–33.
- ^ Poropat, S.F.; Frauenfelder, T.G.; Mannion, P.D.; Rigby, S.L.; Pentland, A.H.; Sloan, T.; Elliott, D.A. (2022). "Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms". Royal Society Open Science. 9 (7): 220381. doi:10.1098/rsos.220381. PMID 35845848.
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