Cedarosaurus facts for kids
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Cedarosaurus
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weiskopfae
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Cedarosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous epoch. It was a herbivore of unknown size. Cedarosaurus was named for the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah, USA. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod that ate tall vegetation from the tree canopy. The skeleton was found in the Cedar Mountains the late 1990s by a team of paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The skeleton was missing the neck, head and other parts.
Images for kids
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Cedarosaurus with two of the authors (Bill Brooks, Virginia Tidwell) who named and described the specimen.
See also
In Spanish: Cedarosaurus weiskopfae para niños
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