Lapparentosaurus

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Lapparentosaurus
Fossil range: Middle Jurassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Family: Brachiosauridae
Genus: Lapparentosaurus
Bonaparte, 1986
Species
  • Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis (type)

Lapparentosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod closely related to Brachiosaurus. Its fossils were found in Madagascar.

The type (and only known) species is Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis, described by Jose Bonaparte in 1986.

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