- Algoasaurus
Taxobox|
name = "Algoasaurus"|
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Sauropsid a
superordo =Dinosaur ia
ordo =Saurischia
subordo =Sauropodomorpha
infraordo =Sauropoda
genus = "Algoasaurus"
genus_authority = Broom, 1904
binomial = "Algoasaurus bauri"
binomial_authority = Broom, 1904"Algoasaurus" (IPAEng|ælˌgoʊəˈsɔrəs; meaning "
Algoa Bay reptile") was agenus ofsauropod dinosaur from theTithonian -early Valanginian-ageLate Jurassic -Early Cretaceous Upper Kirkwood Formation ofCape Province ,South Africa . It was aneosauropod ; although it has often been assigned to theTitanosauridae ,Romer, A.S. (1956). "Osteology of the Reptiles". University of Chicago Press:Chicago, 1-772. ISBN 0-89464985-X.] Steel, R. (1970). Saurischia. "Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology." Part 14. Gustav Fischer Verlag:Stuttgart p. 1-87.] there is no evidence for this, and recent reviews have considered it to be an indeterminate sauropod.McIntosh, J.S. (1990). Sauropoda. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). "The Dinosauria". University of California Press:Berkeley, 345-401. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.] Upchurch, P.M., Barrett, P.M., and Dodson, P. (2004). Sauropoda. In: Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). "The Dinosauria" (2nd edition). University of California Press:Berkeley, 259-322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.]The type
species , "A. bauri", was named byRobert Broom in 1904 from a dorsalvertebra ,femur and an ungual phalanx. Thefossil s were recovered in 1903 from aquarry by workmen who did not recognize them as dinosaur specimens, so many of the samples were made intobrick s and thus destroyed.Broom, R. (1904). On the occurrence of an opisthocoelian dinosaur ("Algoasaurus bauri") in the Cretaceous beds of South Africa. "Geological Magazine", decade 5, 1(483):445-447.] The animal may have been around 9 m (30 ft) long when it died.Lessem, D., and Glut, D.F. 1993. "The Dinosaur Society Dinosaur Encyclopedia". Random House, Inc.:New York, p. 16. ISBN 0-679-41770-2.]References
External links
* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7b2da.htm "Algoasaurus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ's Lair
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