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Aragosaurus

Aragosaurus

Pronunciation:: ahr-ah-go-sore-us
Name meaning:: 'AragÃ³n lizard'

Aragosaurus

© Andrey Atuchin

sauropod silhouette

Type of dinosaur:: sauropod
Length:: 18.0m

Diet:: herbivorous
When it lived:: Early Cretaceous, 132-121 million years ago
Found in:: Spain

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda
Named by:: Sanz, Buscalioni, Casanovas and SanafÃ© (1987)
Type species:: ischiadicus

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