Lamplughsaura
Sign in to saveLamplughsaura is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-aged (Early Jurassic) Dharmaram Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis, known from several partial skeletons of a large quadrupedal animal up to long. It has been classified as either a basal sauropod or more basal sauropodomorph.
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It sits within the topics Anchisauria, Dinosaur genera and Dinosaurs of India.
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Lamplughsaura is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-aged (Early Jurassic) Dharmaram Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis, known from several partial skeletons of a large quadrupedal animal up to long. It has been classified as either a basal sauropod or more basal sauropodomorph.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype and two referred specimens of Lamplughsaura were discovered by Tharavati S. Kutty in 1972 from rocks of the Pranhita–Godavari Basin that date to the Sinemurian age of Early Jurassic epoch.
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