Algoasaurus
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Algoasaurus bauri |
Algoasaurus (Meaning "Algoa Bay reptile") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Late Jurassic and Cretaceous South Africa. It was a neosauropod and possibly a titanosaurid, measuring around 9 m in length. It was probably related either to Apatosaurus or Argentinosaurus.
The type species, A. bauri, was named by Broom in 1904 from a dorsal vertebra, femur and an ungual phalanx but is now considered a nomen dubium. The fossils were recovered in 1903 by workmen who did not recognise them as dinosaur specimens, so many of the samples were made into bricks and thus destroyed.