Atlascopcosaurus
Sign in to saveAtlascopcosaurus () is a genus of herbivorous basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation of Australia.
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- Parent taxon
- Ornithopoda
- Named after
- Atlas Copco
- Image
- Atlascopcosaurus loadsi.JPG
- Length
- 3.0
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- Atlascopcosaurus
- taxon name
- Atlascopcosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Atlascopcosaurus ("Atlas Copco lizard")
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- Australia
- main food source
- herbivore
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Atlascopcosaurus () is a genus of herbivorous basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation of Australia.
== Discovery and naming == The type specimen, NMV P166409, was found in 1984 at the Dinosaur Cove East site on the coast of Victoria, in layers of the Eumeralla Formation dating from the early Cretaceous, Aptian-Albian. The holotype consists of a piece of the upper jaw, a partial maxilla with teeth, and referred specimens include teeth, another maxilla, and dentaries. Although the rest of the skeleton is unknown it can be inferred from closely related species that the genus represents a small bipedal herbivore.
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