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Gannansaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Dinosauria

Clade
  
†Neosauropoda

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Saurischia

Class
  
Reptilia

Suborder
  
†Sauropodomorpha

Clade
  
†Macronaria

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Nankangia, Banji, Amtocephale, Gobiceratops, Helioceratops

Gannansaurus is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur known from the late Late Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Ganzhou Basin, Jiangxi Province of southern China. It is known from specimen GMNH F10001 which consists of a single, nearly complete dorsal vertebra and a mid-caudal vertebra. Gannansaurus was first named by Junchang Lü, Laiping Yi, Hui Zhong and Xuefang Wei in 2013 and the type species is Gannansaurus sinensis. Gannansaurus shares some characters with Euhelopus, indicating that it is more closely related to it rather than to other titanosauriforms.

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Gannansaurus Wikipedia