Atlantosaurus
Dubious sauropod from the Morrison Formation.
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Atlantosaurus is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic upper Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. Its single species, Atlantosaurus montanus, was the first sauropod described during the 19th century Bone Wars, a period when scientific rigor was often sacrificed for academic prestige.
Scientific classification
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassReptilia
- CladeDinosauria
- CladeSaurischia
- Clade†Sauropodomorpha
- Clade
- Superfamily†Diplodocoidea
- Family
- Genus†Atlantosaurus
- SpeciesAtlantosaurus montanus
Named by (Marsh, 1877)
Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Atlantosaurus (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Quick Facts
- Species
- montanus
- Subdivision
- A. immanis?; Marsh, 1878
Facts from the source article.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Atlantosaurus (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Word definitions: the , each quoted from its Wikipedia article.
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