| Aragosaurus Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | † Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | † Sauropoda |
| Clade: | † Macronaria |
| Genus: | †
Aragosaurus Sanz et al., 1987 |
| Species: | †A. ischiaticus
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| †Aragosaurus ischiaticus Sanz et al., 1987
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Aragosaurus (meaning "Aragon lizard") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain. [1] It was deposited in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation.
Aragosaurus was a large, quadrupedal plant-eating ( herbivorous) dinosaur, which lived during the early Berriasian, about 145-140 million years ago. [2] It was about 18 metres (59 ft) in length and about 25 tonnes in weight. [3]
Like other sauropods, it had a long neck, a long powerful tail, a small head and a bulky body. It was broadly similar to Camarasaurus. It is represented by a partial skeleton, which was found in Spain and was named by Sanz, Buscalioni, Casanovi and Santafe in 1987. The type species is A. ischiaticus. Like Camarasaurus, Aragosaurus probably had a short, compact skull and a moderately long neck. The teeth were large and wide, and would have been useful for slicing through the leaves and branches of tall conifer trees. The forelimbs were only a little shorter than the hind limbs, and the tail was long and muscular.
References
- ^ Sanz, J.L., Buscalioni, A.D., Casanovas, M.L. y Santafé, J. V. 1987: Dinosaurios del Cretácico Inferior de Galve (Teruel, España). Estudios Geológicos, volumen extraordinario Galve-Tremp: 45-64.
- ^ Artai A. Santos, Uxue Villanueva-Amadoz, Rafael Royo-Torres, Luis Miguel Sender, Alberto Cobos, Luis Alcalá & José B. Diez (2018). Palaeobotanical records associated with the first dinosaur defined in Spain: Palynostratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeoenvironmental remarks. Cretaceous Research (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.023
- ^ Paul, G. S. (2010). The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, p. 199
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