Euhelopus

Euhelopus
	Live reconstruction of Euhelopus zdanskyi
Temporal occurrence
	Lower Cretaceous ( Barremium to Albium )
	130 to 112 million years
Locations
	Meng-Yin Formation , Shandong , China ;
Systematics
	Dinosaur (dinosauria)
	Lizard dinosaur (Saurischia)
	Sauropodomorpha
	Sauropods (Sauropoda)
	Titanosaurs (Titanosauria)
	Euhelopus
Scientific name
	Euhelopus
	Wiman , 1929
Art
	Euhelopus zdanskyi;

Euhelopus ( "good mud-feet" ) was a sauropod dinosaur , which wasdiscovered and describedby Carl Wiman in1929 in the Meng-Yin Formation in the Chinese province of Shandong . It lived in the Lower Cretaceous about 130 to 112 million years ago and could reach a length of about 15 meters. The weight was estimated to be more than 15 tons. Regarding the system , Euhelopus is counted amongthe Titanosauria . This group is mainly represented by massive sauropods. So faronly one species of this genus is known, Euhelopus zdanskyi . The front extremities, which are longer than the rear ones, arespecial on the physique of Euhelopus . Otherwise, its appearance resembles that of other sauropods, so it had a long neck and tail, a massive body supported by four sturdy legs, and a small skull. Euhelopus was herbivorous (fed on plants).

Originally this dinosaur was named Helopus by Wiman . However, a bird already had this name. Accordingly, in 1956 the name Helopus was changed from Alfred Romer to Euhelopus . There is also a species of plant called Helopus , but this is only possible because plants and birds are in two different realms .

So far no complete skeleton of Euhelopus has been recovered. For the most part, fragments of cervical vertebrae and the spine and a toothless skull have been discovered. These fossil finds are now in the Paleontological Museum of Uppsala University , Sweden .

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Individual evidence

↑ Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paul Upchurch : Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the early cretaceous of China. In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2009, ISSN 1477-2019 , pp. 199-239, doi : 10.1017 / S1477201908002691 .
↑ Data on Euhelopus ( memento from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - location ( memento from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 14, 2014.
↑ Euhelopus on the homepage of the paleontological museum Uppsala ( Swedish ), accessed on August 14, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Euhelopus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Euhelopus ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 14, 2014.
Euholepus on Dinosaurier-Info.de , accessed on August 14, 2014.
Posture of the neck of Euhelopus , accessed on August 14, 2014.

[1] Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paul Upchurch : Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the early cretaceous of China. In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2009, ISSN 1477-2019 , pp. 199-239, doi : 10.1017 / S1477201908002691 .

[2] Data on Euhelopus ( memento from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - location ( memento from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 14, 2014.

[3] Euhelopus on the homepage of the paleontological museum Uppsala ( Swedish ), accessed on August 14, 2014.