Histriasaurus
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| Histriasaurus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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Histriasaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Barremian stages, around 130 million years ago). Its fossils were found in Croatia, and described in 1998 by Dalla Vecchia. It was a diplodocoid sauropod, related to, but more primitive than, Rebbachisaurus.
The type species, H. boscarollii, was described by Dalla Vecchia in 1998. Although some authors consider Histriasaurus a dubious taxon, more recent papers support the original classification.[1]
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- ^ Apesteguía, S. (2005). "Evolution in the hyposphene-hypantrum complex within Sauropoda". In K. Carpenter & V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 248-267
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