Cedarosaurus
Cedarosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous epoch.[1] It was a herbivore of unknown size.[2] Cedarosaurus was named for the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah, USA.[2] It was a brachiosaurid sauropod that ate tall vegetation from the tree canopy.[2] The skeleton was found in the Cedar Mountains the late 1990s by a team of paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.[3] The skeleton was missing the neck, head and other parts.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Bagualosauria |
| Family: | Brachiosauridae |
| Genus: | Cedarosaurus Tidwell et al., 1999 |
| Species: | C. weiskopfae
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| Cedarosaurus weiskopfae Tidwell et al., 1999
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Cedarosaurus Media
Cedarosaurus with two of the authors (Bill Brooks, Virginia Tidwell) who named and described the specimen.
Size comparison of the Cretaceous brachiosaurid Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. The human silhouette 180 cm is from
- Silhouette of man standing and facing forward.svg (CC0).*References * Photograph of the known material of Cedarosaurus by Kenneth Carpenter * Tidwell, V.; Carpenter, K.; Brooks, W.
References
- ↑ Michael P. Taylor; Mathew J. Wedel; Richard L. Cifelli, 'A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol. 56, No.1 (2011), p. 75
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Cedarosaurus". Prehistoric-Wildlife.com. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ "Images". The Earth Observatory. EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ "Cedarosaurus". Dinochecker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2017.