| Pukyongosaurus | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton ofPukyongosaurus in the Pukyong National University | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Genus: | †Pukyongosaurus Donget al., 2001 |
| Type species | |
| Pukyongosaurus millenniumi Donget al., 2001 | |
Pukyongosaurus (meaning "Pukyong lizard", after thePukyong National University[1]) is agenus oftitanosauriformdinosaur that lived inSouth Korea during the EarlyCretaceous Period (Aptian -Albian). It may have been closely related toEuhelopus, and is known from a series ofvertebrae in the neck and back. The characteristics that were originally used to distinguish this genus have been criticized as being either widespread or too poorly preserved to evaluate, rendering the genus an indeterminatenomen dubium among titanosauriforms.[2] A 2022 study noted thatPukyongosaurus is probably asomphospondylan.[3]
In 2000, several fragments of a sauropod skeleton were discovered in theHasandong Formation inHadong County,South Korea. One of the caudal vertebrae ascribed toPukyongosaurus has bite marks from theropod teeth.[4]
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