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Barapasaurus
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Barapasaurus was a primitive but very large sauropod.
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- Pronounced
- Bar-rap-oh-SORE-us
- Meaning of name
- big leg lizard
- Length
- 14m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Jurassic
(185 - 170 million years ago) - Found in
- India
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Cetiosauridae, Barapasaurus
- Named by
- Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury and Chatterjee (1975)
- Type species
- tagorei