Aragosaurus Aragosaurus
"Aragon lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aragosaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
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- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Aragosaurus (meaning “Aragon lizard”) was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain. It was deposited in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation.
thumb|left|Models of Aragosaurus and Torvosaurus, [[Dinópolis]] Aragosaurus was a large, quadrupedal plant-eating (herbivorous) dinosaur, which lived during the early Berriasian, about 145-140 million years ago. It was about 18 m in length and about 25 tonnes in weight.
What we know
- Named by Sanz et al., 1987.
- Body length estimated at about 18 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and Spain.