Dasosaurus
Sign in to saveDasosaurus is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Itapecuru Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, Dasosaurus tocantinensis. Its morphology is similar to the titanosauriform Garumbatitan, known from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.
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Dasosaurus is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Itapecuru Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, Dasosaurus tocantinensis. Its morphology is similar to the titanosauriform Garumbatitan, known from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype of Dasosaurus, CPHNAM VT 1600, was discovered by Daniel Ribeiro da Silva, an archeologist, in outcrops of the Itapecuru Formation in Davinópolis, Maranhão, Brazil. da Silva found the fossils exposed at the base of an ~-high slope. The specimen consists of phalanges, ribs, an ulna, radius, tibia, fibula, femur, pubis, ischium, and at least ten disarticulated caudal vertebrae.
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