Ohmdenosaurus

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Ohmdenosaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Family: Vulcanodontidae
Genus: Ohmdenosaurus
Species: O. liasicus
Binomial name
Ohmdenosaurus liasicus
Wild, 1978

Ohmdenosaurus (meaning "Ohmden lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a very small (4 meters long) vulcanodont sauropod which lived in Germany. Only a couple of fragmentary leg bones were found.

The type species is O. liasicus, described in 1978 by Wild.

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