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Pleurocoelus
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Pleurocoelus is known from partial skull and postcranial bones and reconstructions are mostly guesswork. It may be the same dinosaur as (a synonym of) Astrodon, which is not yet in the Dino Directory.
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- Pronounced
- ploor-oh-seel-us
- Meaning of name
- hollow-sided [vertebrae]
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(121 - 99 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Pleurocoelus
- Named by
- Marsh (1888)
- Type species
- nanus