Aeolosaurus
Aeolosaurus rionegrinus
Pronounced:
ee - O - low - Sore - us
Diet:
Herbivore (Plant-Eater)
Name Means:
"Aeolus Lizard"
Length: 50
feet (15 m)?
Height:
Unknown
Weight:
Unknown
Time: Late
Cretaceous - 75 MYA
Fossil remains for this
Dinosaur have been found in
South America
Aeolosaurus was a member
of the long-necked,
plant-eating titanosaur
family. Although it was
small for a titanosaur, it
was still quite large, and
like some of the other
smaller titanosaurs, it had
bony plates on its back to
protect it from the bite of
large meat-eaters that would
have attacked from above.
Known from several partial skeletons,
Aeolosaurus is the first known titanosaur from
fossil-rich Patagonia to exhibit dermal plates.
An interesting note is that unusually thick egg
shells with strange dome shapes on the surface
were found associated with this dinosaur's
fossil material. |
