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Eobrontosaurus
| Eobrontosaurus Fossil range: Late Jurassic |
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| Eobrontosaurus yahnahpin (Filla & Redman, 1994) |
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Eobrontosaurus (meaning "dawn thunder lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America. It was a sauropod closely related to Apatosaurus.
The type species, E. yahnahpin, was described by Filla and Redman in 1994 as a species of Apatosaurus (A. yahnahpin), but re-evaluation by Bakker in 1998 found it to be more primitive, and so Bakker coined the new generic name Eobrontosaurus.
References
- Eobrontosaurus in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia at DinoRuss' Lair
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