Aepisaurus
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| Lower Cretaceous ( Aptium to Albium ) | ||||||||||||
| 121 to 98.9 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Gervais , 1852 | ||||||||||||
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Aepisaurus is the generic name of a quadruped titanosaurid thatlivedin the middle of the Cretaceous Period . The name Aepisaurus means "high lizard".
Like all sauropods , Aepisaurus ate plants ( herbivorous ). According to estimates, it was around 10 meters high and 15 meters long; its weight could have been about 10 tons. It is not known whether Aepisaurus was armored similarly to other titanosaurids.
As holotype was A. elephantinus 1852 by Paul Gervais described. The only find of this animal was an upper arm bone (humerus), which was discovered in Gres Vert in the French department of Vaucluse . Because of this sparse fossil record, the species is referred to by some as the noun dubium , so it is controversial whether the listing of a separate genus and species is justified or whether the find should not also be assigned to another, already known titanosaurid.
literature
Gervais, R .: Zoologie et paleontologie françaises (Animaux Vertebre's) 1st ed., Paris. 271 pp (1852).
