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''Fusuisaurus'' (meaning "
Fusui Fusui County is a county in the southwest of Guangxi, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Chongzuo. Geography Fusui is located in southwestern Guangxi and in eastern Chongzuo City. It borders Qingxi ...
lizard" from the name of the county where it was discovered) is a genus of
sauropod Sauropoda (), whose members are known as sauropods (; from '' sauro-'' + '' -pod'', 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs. Sauropods had very long necks, long tails, small heads (relative to the rest of their b ...
dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...
from the
Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous (geochronology, geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 143.1 ...
of China. Fragmentary postcranial remains of this animal have been discovered in 2001 in the Napai Formation of Guangxi,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
and consist of the left ilium, left pubis, anterior caudals, most of the dorsal ribs and distal end of the left femur. This sauropod has been described as a basal titanosauriform. The
type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
is ''F. zhaoi'', named in honour of Chinese paleontologist Zhao Xijin.


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In 2016
Gregory S. Paul Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an American freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology. He is best known for his work and research on theropoda, theropod dinosaurs and his detailed illustrations, both l ...
gave a length of 22 meters (72 ft) and a weight of 35 tonnes (38.6 short tons). This sauropod was a very large animal, as its humerus was 183.5 cm long. Despite this, its weight is estimated "only" at about 35 000 kilograms.


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* Titanosauria Dinosaur genera Early Cretaceous dinosaurs Taxa named by Xu Xing Fossil taxa described in 2006 Dinosaurs of China {{Sauropodomorph-stub