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family · 2 represented species

Mamenchisauridae

Mamenchisauridae is a lineage of predominantly Asian sauropods noted for extremely elongate necks and complex vertebral pneumaticity.

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Mamenchisauridae

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Representative silhouette for Mamenchisauridae
2Direct child groups
2Countries represented
159–145.2 MaDataset range

Branch structure

Direct branches in this dataset

genus

Uragasaurus

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Mamenchisaurus

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Representative taxa

Dinosaurs in this branch

Life reconstruction of Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, shown as a representative relative of Mamenchisaurus hochuanensisArt by Connor Ashbridge · CC BY 4.0

Jurassic

Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

A nearly complete Chinese sauropod famous for a neck about 9.5 metres long, an exceptional cervical series and a small fused structure at the end of its tail.

herbivore~22 m

Distribution

Geographic record

Thailand · China

Country-level summary of represented seed records, not a complete range map.

Sources

Further reading

Introduction to the DinosauriaDinosaur Paleobiology