Klamelisaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod similar to Bellusaurus, of which it may actually be an adult specimen. It was found in the Gobi desert of Asia.

 The type species, K. gobiensis, was described by Zhao Xijin in 1993 from the Shishugou Formation.

 Klamelisaurus was an essentially advanced sauropod that also shows many primitive features, and may represent an intermediate form in sauropod evolution. It had massive , spatulate teeth and high neural spine s on its backbone. It may be the adult form of Bellusaurus.

 Euhelopodidae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs which includes the genus Euhelopus. The family name was first proposed by American paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956. The four genera Chiayusaurus, Omeisaurus, Tienshanosaurus, and Euhelopus were the original proposed euhelopodines (subfamily Euhelopodinae). Other Chinese genera, such as Mamenchisaurus, used to be placed within this family, but are now in Mamenchisauridae. However, the traditional Euhelopodidae has been abandoned by many taxonomists for the time being. There may be such a family, but currently Jurassic and Cretaceous Asian sauropods are poorly known and have not yet been subjected to many detailed analyses, so it is unknown if there really is a Euhelopodidae of more than Euhelopus.

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