Clasmodosaurus

Clasmodosaurus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Genus: Clasmodosaurus
Ameghino, 1898
Species

C. spatula Ameghino, 1898

Clasmodosaurus was a genus of dinosaur, probably a sauropod. It lived during the Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. It is considered a nomen dubium because it is known only from fossilized teeth, and is therefore a tooth taxon.

The type species, Clasmodosaurus spatula, was described by Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino in 1898.

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