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Ampelosaurus
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Ampelosaurus is known from fossil teeth, postcranial bones and osteoderms ('armour plating').
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- Pronounced
- am-pel-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- vineyard lizard
- Length
- 15m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(71 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- France
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia, Ampelosaurus
- Named by
- Le Loeuff (1995)
- Type species
- atacis