Lapparentosaurus

Lapparentosaurus

Lapparentosaurus Fossil range: Middle Jurassic
Scientific classification
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
Family:	Brachiosauridae
Genus:	Lapparentosaurus Bonaparte, 1986
Species:	L. madagascariensis (type)

Lapparentosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod closely related to Brachiosaurus. Its fossils were found in Madagascar.

The type (and only known) species is Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis, described by Jose Bonaparte in 1986.

References

• http://www.thescelosaurus.com/macronaria.htm