#tapuiasaurus

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Saltriovenator at sunset picking up a washed up Cenoceras Gastornis Spectrovenator hunting a Tapuiasaurus in the rain moments before disaster. A pair of Pavlodaria orlovi bucks have some "quality time".

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Tapuiasaurus macedoi

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapuiasaurus

Name: Tapuiasaurus macedoi

Name Meaning: Tapuia Reptile

First Described: 2011

Described By: Zaher et al. 

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Plateosauria, Massopoda, Sauropodiformes, Anchisauria, Sauropoda, Gravisauria, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Titanosauriformes, Somphospondyli, Titanosauria

Tapuiasaurus was a titanosaur from the Quiricó Formation in Minas Gerais, eastern Brazil. It lived about 120 million years ago, in the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous, and it was probably about 13 meters long. It is known from an almost complete skull, which is rare for a titanosaur; that skull is very similar to that of Nemegtosaurus, however, given the rarity of cranial material for titanosaurs, it’s difficult to actually use that to demonstrate that Tapuiasaurus is more closely related to Nemegtosaurus than, say, any of the dozens of headless titanosaurs. 

Sources: 

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/t/tapuiasaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapuiasaurus

Shout out goes to @definingrandom!

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Tapuiasaurus macedoi by atrox1