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
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 *
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 CedarosaurusPrehistoric-Wildlife.com. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ Images. The Earth ObservatoryEOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ↑ CedarosaurusDinochecker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2017.