Rebbachisaurus

Taxobox
name = "Rebbachisaurus"
fossil_range=Early Cretaceous


image_caption = Vertebra of "Rebbachisaurus garasbae"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
superfamilia = Diplodocoidea
familia = Rebbachisauridae
genus = "Rebbachisaurus"
genus_authority = Lavocat, 1954
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "R. garasbae" Lavocat, 1954 (type)
* "R. tamesnensis" Lapparent, 1960 "Rebbachisaurus" is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the superfamily Diplodocoidea, up to 20 meters (68 ft) long, that lived in the Early Cretaceous period about 99 million years ago. This massive four-legged plant-eating animal had a small head, a long, graceful neck and a whiplike tail. "Rebbachisaurus" is distinguished from other sauropods by its unusually tall, ridged back. The discovery of "Rayososaurus", a South American sauropod nearly identical to "Rebbachisaurus", supports the theory that there was still a land connection between Africa and South America during the Early Cretaceous, long after it was commonly thought the two continents had separated.

References

* Upchurch, P., Barrett, P.M., and Dodson, P. (2004). "Sauropoda". In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), "The Dinosauria" (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 259-322.