Borealosaurus
{{short description|Genus of dinosaurs}}
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|fossil_range=Late Cretaceous, {{fossil range|95|90}}
|image=Borealosaurus reconstruction.png
|image_caption=Restoration of Borealosaurus
|genus=Borealosaurus
|species=wimani
|authority=You et al., 2004
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Borealosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of northern China. The type species is Borealosaurus wimani, which was named in 2004.{{Cite web |url=http://www.esconi.org/files/february2005.pdf |title=Karen's Komments - ESCONI Paleontology Study Group |access-date=2009-09-23 |archive-date=2011-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726034332/http://www.esconi.org/files/february2005.pdf |url-status=live }}
Description
The type and only species is Borealosaurus wimani, based on fragmentary remains from the Sunjiawan Formation of Liaoning. The morphology of a mid-distal caudal vertebra was considered suggestive of a relationship with the Mongolian titanosaur Opisthocoelicaudia. However, in their overview of Cretaceous sauropod remains from Central Asia, Averianov and Sues considered Borealosaurus a non-lithostrotian titanosaur due to the lack of procoely in the middle caudal vertebrae.{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.006|title=Review of Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs from Central Asia|journal=Cretaceous Research|volume=69|pages=184–197|year=2017|last1=Averianov|first1=Alexander|last2=Sues|first2=Hans-Dieter|doi-access=free|bibcode=2017CrRes..69..184A }}
It was described by Hailu, Qiang, Lamanna, Jinglu and Yinxiang, in 2004. It was named from Greek {{lang|grc|Βορεας}} (the North wind) and {{lang|grc|σαυρος}} (lizard), with its specific name being given in honor of Swedish paleontologist Carl Wiman, who named the first Chinese dinosaur.{{cite journal|title=A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur with opsithocoelous caudal vertebrae from the early Late Cretaceous of Liaoning province, China|author1=You, H. |author2=Ji, Q. |author3=Lamanna, M. C. |author4=Li, J. |author5=Li, Y. |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica|date=2004 |volume=78|issue=4|pages=907–911|doi=10.1111/j.1755-6724.2004.tb00212.x|bibcode=2004AcGlS..78..907Y }}
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Category:Taxa named by Hailu You
Category:Taxa named by Matt Lamanna