Epachthosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Epachthosaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
superfamilia = Titanosauroidea
genus = "Epachthosaurus"
species = "E. sciuttoi"
binomial = "Epachthosaurus sciuttoi"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1990

"Epachthosaurus" (meaning "heavy lizard") was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaurid sauropod. Its fossils have been found in Central and Northern Patagonia in South America.

The type species, "E. sciuttoi", was described by Powell in 1990. A nearly complete skeleton was described in 2004.

References

Powell, J. (1990). "Epachthosaurus sciuttoi (gen. et sp. nov.)" un dinosaurio sauropodo del Cretácico de Patagonia (provincia de Chubut, Argentina)." "Actas del Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia" 5: p 125-128

External links

* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a6d7d2.htm "Epachthosaurus" in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia] at DinoRuss' Lair