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EUROPASAURUS
(yu-ro-pa-sore-us)
meaning: "European lizard"
Europasaurus
Named By: Mateus, Laven, & Knotschke vide Sander et al in 2006
Time Period: Late Jurassic, 154 Ma
Location: Germany
Size: Up to 6.2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Many individuals represented by partial remains, including juveniles
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Sauropoda | Macronaria | Camarasauromorpha |
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Europasaurus is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic (middle Kimmeridgian, about 154 million years ago) of northern Germany, and has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island within the Lower Saxony basin.

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