Algoasaurus
| Algoasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Genus: | †Algoasaurus Broom, 1904
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| †Algoasaurus bauri Broom, 1904
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Algoasaurus (/ælˌɡoʊ.əˈsɔːrəs/; "Algoa Bay reptile") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Berriasian-early Valanginian-age Early Cretaceous Upper Kirkwood Formation of Cape Province, South Africa. It was a neosauropod; although it has often been assigned to the Titanosauridae,[1][2] there is no evidence for this, and recent reviews have considered it to be an indeterminate sauropod.[3][4]
The type species, A. bauri, was named by Robert Broom in 1904 from a cervical vertebra, femur, an ungual phalanx and a scapula. The fossils were recovered in 1903 from a quarry by workmen who did not recognize them as dinosaur specimens, so many of the bones, probably including the rest of the once near-complete holotype, were made into bricks and thus destroyed.[5] The animal may have been around 9 m (30 ft) long when it died.[6]
References
- ^ Romer, Alfred Sherwood (1997). Osteology of the reptiles (Reprint with new preface and taxonomic table. ed.). Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co. pp. 1–772. ISBN 0-89464-985-X.
- ^ Steel, R. (1970). Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 14. Gustav Fischer Verlag:Stuttgart p. 1-87.
- ^ David B. Weishampel; Peter Dodson; Halszka Osmólska, eds. (1992). The Dinosauria (1st. paperback printing. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 345–401. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
- ^ David B. Weishampel, ed. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd. ed.). Berkeley [u.a.]: Univ. of California Press. pp. 259–322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Don Lessem; Donald F. Glut (1993). The Dinosaur Society's dinosaur encyclopedia. Tracy Ford (illus.) ... [et al.] ; scientific advisors, Peter Dodson (1st. ed.). New York: Random House. p. 16. ISBN 0-679-41770-2.
