Liubangosaurus is a genus

Genus

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 of sauropod dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

 which lived during the Early Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...

 in what is now southern China

China

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. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five nearly complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae referred to as. It was collected from the Napai Formation in Fusui County

Fusui County

Fusui County is a county of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of Chongzuo City....

, Guangxi Province. It was first described by Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut in 2010

2010 in paleontology

-Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

. The type species

Type species

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is Liubangosaurus hei.