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  • ✓Sauropod about 15–20 m long, neck moderately raised
  • ✓Pillar-like legs, front legs as long as or slightly longer than hind legs, broad body
  • ✓Tail held off the ground
  • ✓Whole animal visible in side view
  • ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
  • ✓No text, people or modern objects

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Scientifically accurate paleoart of Phuwiangosaurus, a herbivore Euhelopodidae dinosaur from Barremian–Aptian times (125.77–113.2 million years ago). A titanosauriform sauropod about 15–20 meters long, with a long neck held moderately raised. Reference: Phuwiangosaurus is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian) Sao Khua Formation of Thailand. The type species, P. sirindhornae, was described by Martin, Buffetaut, and Suteethorn in a 1993 press release and was formally named in 1994. The species was named to honor Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, who was interested in the geology and palaeontology of Thailand, while the genus was named after the Phu Wiang area, where the fossil was discovered. The precise affinities of Phuwiangosaurus among titanosauriform sauropods are uncertain, though several studies have classified it as a euhelopodid. Anatomy: pillar-like legs with the front legs about as long as or slightly longer than the hind legs, broad body; a tail held off the ground. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in an Early Cretaceous river floodplain like the Sao Khua Formation of northeastern Thailand, warm and semi-arid with conifers, cycads and ferns along meandering rivers, no grass and no flowering plants. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.

Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database

Phuwiangosaurus

Name meaning: Named after Phu Wiang district in Khon Kaen province, where its fossils were found.

HerbivoreFound in Thailand

📏 About 15–20 m long, longer than a semi-trailer truck.

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Phuwiangosaurus was a long-necked, plant-eating sauropod and one of the first Thai dinosaurs to be formally named, from the Phu Wiang dig sites in Khon Kaen.

Fun facts

  • Named in 1994, Phuwiangosaurus was the first new dinosaur species from Thailand to receive a scientific name.
  • The Sirindhorn Museum in Kalasin province displays fossils of Thai dinosaurs, including Phuwiangosaurus.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Phuwiangosaurus (Sao Khua), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.

Scientific details

Classification
Sauropodomorph (long-necked)
Family
Euhelopodidae
When it lived
113.2–125.77 million years ago
Geologic stages
Barremian – Aptian
Named by
Martin et al., 1994
Fossil occurrences
15 sites

Countries with fossils

  • Thailand

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata