Oplosaurus
Oplosaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived on the Isle of Wight during the Early Cretaceous. It is known from just one big tooth, but that tooth tells us it was a giant, like a Brachiosaurus. Imagine a gentle giant munching on leaves with a tooth as big as your hand!12
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Oplosaurus is known only from a single tooth, found in the 1850s. This tooth is 85 mm (3.35 inches) tall, about as long as a credit card.12
The tooth looks very similar to a Brachiosaurus tooth, so scientists think Oplosaurus was a giant sauropod, maybe 25 metres (82 feet) long.12
Its name means 'armed lizard' or 'weapon lizard', probably because the tooth looked like a weapon. The species name armatus also means 'armed' in Latin.1
Some scientists think Oplosaurus might have been a turiasaur, a group of primitive sauropods with heart-shaped teeth. Others place it in the Camarasauridae family.1
The tooth has a pointed tip and wear facets from grinding plants. This shows Oplosaurus was a plant-eater that chewed its food.1
Oplosaurus lived on the Isle of Wight when it was a low plain with rivers and lakes. The climate was warm and humid, like a subtropical forest.1

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?How big was Oplosaurus?
About 25 metres (82 feet) long, based on its tooth being as big as a Brachiosaurus tooth.12
?What did Oplosaurus eat?
It was a plant-eater. Its tooth has wear facets from grinding tough vegetation.12
Mito-hauslea
Mitoa: Oplosaurus was an armoured dinosaur like Hylaeosaurus.
Egia: Scientists once thought the tooth belonged to an armoured dinosaur because it was sharp, but Oplosaurus is now considered a long-necked sauropod, not an armoured dinosaur.1
Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Oplosaurus
- Izendatzailea:
- Gervais 18523
- Taldea
- Lepo-luzeak
- Familia / klada
- Sauropoda3
- Sailkapena
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda3
- Arroken adina
- 137 eta 121 milioi urte artean (Valanginian / Barremian)3
- Herrialdeak
- Erresuma Batua3
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
- Aurkikuntza
- In 1852, geologist Thomas Wright reported a large tooth found near Brixton Bay on the Isle of Wight. French paleontologist Paul Gervais named it Oplosaurus armatus the same year.1
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists are not sure if Oplosaurus is a valid dinosaur or if its tooth belongs to another sauropod such as Pelorosaurus or a turiasaur.12
Datuak nondik datozen
- Oplosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Oplosaurus, a possible Camarasaur from the Isle of Wight - DinoWight (dinowight.org.uk)
- Oplosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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