Lessemsaurus

Taxobox
name = "Lessemsaurus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Prosauropoda
familia = Melanorosauridae
genus = "Lessemsaurus"
species = "L. sauropoides"
binomial = "Lessemsaurus sauropoides"
binomial_authority = Bonaparte, 1999

"Lessemsaurus" is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur (possibly a melanosaurid) named for the writer of popular science books Don Lessem. The type species, "L. sauropoides", was formally described by Jose Bonaparte in 1999. This dinosaur was around 30 feet long, and was discovered in strata dating to the Norian stage, around 210 million years ago.

Literature

*Bonaparte, J. F. 1999. Evolución de las vértebras presacras en Sauropodomorpha. "Ameghiniana" 36: 115–187.
*Pol, D. and Powell, J. E. 2007. New information on "Lessemsaurus sauropoides" (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Argentina. "Special Papers in Palaeontology" 77

External links

* [http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/dinol.htm Dinosauria.com]