Algoasaurus

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iAlgoasaurus
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Genus: Algoasaurus
Binomial name
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.

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