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Venenosaurus

Venenosaurus - Meaning: Poison Lizard

Venenosaurus (vahr-AN-oh-SAWR-us) was a genus titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Aptian - Albian ages during the Lower Cretaceous period about 116 - 113 million years ago.

Dinosaur Venenosaurus

Venenosaurus Characteristics

Venenosaurus was a relatively small dinosaur, compared to other huge sauropods, that measured around 33 feet (10 metres) in length. It had a long neck with a small head and a long whip-like tail which it probably used as a form of defence to swipe attackers away. Venenosaurus was a quadrupedal dinosaur who had a large bulky body and walked on 4 thick, trunk-like legs which probably had wide, hoof-like feet.


Venenosaurus was a herbivore and ate prehistoric plant material such as conifers and ferns. It may have swallowed leaves whole or chewed them with its many cheek teeth. Venenosaurus would have had to eat huge amounts of vegetation to sustain its size.


Venenosaurus is known from an incomplete skeleton of an adult and a juvenile.


Venenosaurus was named after the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, where the fossils were discovered by Tidwell, Carpenter and Meyer in 2001.

VENENOSAURUS CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs
Suborder:
Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:
Sauropoda
Unranked:
Titanosauriformes
Genus:
Venenosaurus
Species:
Venenosaurus dicrocei, Tidwell et al., 2001






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