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- noun Any
sauropod , of the rank Neosauropoda, from the lateJurassic period
Etymologies
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neo- + sauropod
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So, in the Wessex Formation we have … an unusual neosauropod of uncertain affinities (Oplosaurus), definite brachiosaurids, definite titanosaurs, and a rebbachisaurid.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Naish & Martill (2001), the idiots, thought that this might be another brachiosaurid, but that’s clearly wrong: Canudo et al. (2002) suggested that Oplosaurus might instead have been closer to Camarasaurus, and Upchurch et al. (2004) regarded it as a distinct neosauropod of uncertain affinities.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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