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DEMANDASAURUS
(dee-man-dah-sore-us)
meaning: "Demanda lizard, a reference to the Sierra de la Demanda"
Demandasaurus
Named By: Fidel Torcida FernandezinBaldor, Jose Ignacio Canudo, Pedro Huerta, Diego Montero, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola & Leonardo Salgado in 2011
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 125 Ma
Location: Spain, Burgos Province - Castrillo la Reina Formation
Size: Uncertain, but estimated at somewhere between 10 and 12 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial cranial and post cranial skeletal remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Sauropoda | Diplodocoidea | Rebbachisauridae |
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Demandasaurus (meaning "Demanda lizard") is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from early Cretaceous (late Barremian - early Aptian stage) deposits of Spain. Demandasaurus is known from an incomplete but associated skeleton that includes cranial and postcranial remains. It was collected from the Castrillo la Reina Formation in Burgos Province of Spain. It was first named by Fidel Torcida Fernandez-Baldor, Jose Ignacio Canudo, Pedro Huerta, Diego Montero, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola and Leonardo Salgado in 2011 and the type species is Demandasaurus darwini.

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