Lapparentosaurus
Lapparentosaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived on the island of Madagascar during the Middle Jurassic. It walked on all fours and munched on leaves with its peg-like teeth. Scientists have found bones from several young and adult Lapparentosaurus, but no skulls yet.21
Cando viviu?
Como era de grande?
Canto medía de longo?
Canto medía de alto?
Canto pesaba?
tan longo coma 3 coches aparcados en fila🍌tan longo coma 83 plátanos postos un tras outro
tan pesado coma 17 coches🍉tan pesado coma 5000 sandías🎒tan pesado coma 31 clases enteiras de nenos🐻❄️tan pesado coma 56 osos polares🏢tan alto que podería asomarse a unha xanela do andar 3🏃podería correr 100 metros en 33 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Lapparentosaurus comparado CONTIGO?
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Que velocidade alcanzaba?
Datos curiosos
Lapparentosaurus took 31 to 45 years to reach sexual maturity, based on growth rings in its bones.2
Its bones show a lot of fibrolamellar bone, which means it grew relatively fast.2
The first fossils were found before 1894 by Joseph Thomas Last in the Majunga Basin of Madagascar.2
The genus was named in 1986 by paleontologist José Bonaparte in honor of French geologist Albert-Félix de Lapparent.21
Lapparentosaurus has a mix of features from both early sauropods and more advanced titanosauriforms, which makes its family tree confusing.2
No skull of Lapparentosaurus has ever been found, so scientists have to guess what its head looked like.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Lapparentosaurus
?How big was Lapparentosaurus?
No one knows for sure because only partial skeletons have been found. It was a large sauropod, but scientists cannot give an exact length or weight.21
?What did Lapparentosaurus eat?
It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It used its peg-like teeth to munch on leaves.1
?When did Lapparentosaurus live?
It lived during the Middle Jurassic, about 169 to 164 million years ago.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Lapparentosaurus
- Bautizado por
- Bonaparte 19864
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Eusauropoda4
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda4
- Idade das rochas
- de 168 a 165 millóns de anos (Bathonian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Isalo III4
- Países
- Madagascar4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- The first fossils were collected before 1894 by Joseph Thomas Last in Madagascar. In 1986, José Bonaparte named the new genus Lapparentosaurus after Albert-Félix de Lapparent, using two neural arches of dorsal vertebrae as the type specimen.2
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists still debate whether Lapparentosaurus was a basal eusauropod or a more advanced titanosauriform, because its bones show a mix of traits.2
De onde veñen os datos
- Lapparentosaurus | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- Lapparentosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis (es.wikipedia.org)
- Lapparentosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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