Morinosaurus
Sign in to saveMorinosaurus (meaning "Morini lizard", for an ancient people of northern France) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-aged (Late Jurassic) rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Département du Pas-de-Calais, France. It is an obscure tooth genus sometimes referred to the Early Cretaceous English wastebasket taxon Pelorosaurus.
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Morinosaurus (meaning "Morini lizard", for an ancient people of northern France) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-aged (Late Jurassic) rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Département du Pas-de-Calais, France. It is an obscure tooth genus sometimes referred to the Early Cretaceous English wastebasket taxon Pelorosaurus.
== History and taxonomy == The French paleontologist H. E. Sauvage based this genus on a single worn tooth, apparently now lost, which he compared to those of Hypselosaurus. Oddly, despite illustrations of the tooth, and the implications of comparing it to a titanosaur with narrow-crowned teeth, it was included as a synonym of Pelorosaurus in two major reviews. Pelorosaurus, being a putative brachiosaurid, is assumed to have had broad-crowned teeth.
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