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Hypselosaurus
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Fossil eggs have been found close to this dinosaur. However, Hypselosaurus is now a nomen dubium (dubious name), as this is no longer thought to be a distinct dinosaur genus.
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- Pronounced
- hip-sell-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- high ridged lizard
- Length
- 12m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(71 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Spain, France
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Hypselosaurus
- Named by
- Matheron (1869)
- Type species
- priscus