Cedarosaurus
genus of reptiles (fossil)
Cedarosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous epoch.[1] It was a herbivore of unknown size.[2] Cedarosaurus was named for the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah, USA.[2] It was a brachiosaurid sauropod that ate tall vegetation from the tree canopy.[2] The skeleton was found in the Cedar Mountains the late 1990s by a team of paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.[3] The skeleton was missing the neck, head and other parts.[4]
| Cedarosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Family: | †Brachiosauridae |
| Genus: | †Cedarosaurus Tidwell et al., 1999 |
| Species: | †C. weiskopfae
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| Binomial name | |
| Cedarosaurus weiskopfae Tidwell et al., 1999
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References
change- ↑ Michael P. Taylor; Mathew J. Wedel; Richard L. Cifelli, 'A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol. 56, No.1 (2011), p. 75
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Cedarosaurus". Prehistoric-Wildlife.com. Archived from the original on November 14, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ "Images". The Earth Observatory. EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ "Cedarosaurus". Dinochecker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2017.