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Lourinhasaurus

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Lourinhasaurus. Species: L. alenquerensis. 
Meaning of name: Lourinha lizard. 
Distribution: Portugal. 
Time: Late Jurassic. 
Classification: Sauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauridae. 
Length: 17m. 
Lifestyle: browser.

Background photo: Roque Nublo, Grand Canaria.

 

 

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Interesting take with the short neck. It looks like Atlasaurus.

Do we know for sure if Lourinhasaurus was a camarasaur? Atlasaurus is a rather odd basal brachiosaur so this might represent some unusual convergence. Or maybe Lourinhasaurus is more like Atlasaurus than the camarasaurs.