Ferganasaurus

Ferganasaurus

Ferganasaurus Fossil range: {{{fossil_range}}}
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
Genus:	Ferganasaurus Alifanov & Averianov, 2003
Species:	F. verzilini

Ferganasaurus was a genus of dinosaur first formally described in 2003 by Alifanov and Averianov. The type species is Ferganasaurus verzilini. It was a sauropod similar to Rhoetosaurus. The fossils were discovered in 1966 in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan and date to the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic.

References

• http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/dinobase/Yrs2000.html
• http://www.courier.com.ru/priroda/pr1003new_31.htm
• Eusauropoda page