#aeolosaurus

Bonapartesaurus, a new Gondwana saurolophine.

Finding new Gondwana hadrosaurs is always an event. I have had the great pleasure and honour to restore this robust new saurolophine for my friend Penélope Cruzado Caballero, that has done her PhD on hadrosaurs!. She has always been the Hadrosaur Ace to my eyes.

Bonapoartesaurus rionegrensis, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,  possesses a strange mixture for characters that…

Source: http://es.prehistorico.wikia.com/wiki/Usuario_Blog:Blog_de_Jason/Aeolosaurus 

Name: Aeolosaurus rigonegrinus, A. colhuehuapensis, A. maximus

Name Meaning: Aeolus’ Reptile

First Described: 1987

Described By: Powell 

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

Aeolosaurus was a titanosaur known from the Angostura Colorada, Allen, Bajo Barreal, and Los Almanitos Formations in Argentina and the Adamantina and Marilla FOrmations of Brazil, living in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, about 83 to 74 million years ago. It has multiple species, which is always strange for a non-avian dinosaur. It is known from the partial remains of several individuals and was fairly closely related to Gondwanatitan. A. rigonegrinus was about 14 meters long and was heavily built, but A. maximus was more slender, an d was the largest species, so was potentially longer than 14 meters in length. Aeolosaurus had osteoderms, like many late sauropods, and is also known from many fragmentary remains not assigned to a species. It lived alongside hadrosaurus, other titanosaurs like Rocasaurus, ankylosaurs, and abelisaurs like Abelisaurus and Carnotaurus. 

Sources: 

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/aeolosaurus.html

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

Aeolosaurus - a genus of Late Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs

“Αἴολος, Αἰόλου ” - Aeolus (Greek god of the winds) + “σαῦρος, σαύρου ” - reptile, lizard

-- > [ αἰολο- ] + [ σαυρο- ] -- stems

-- > [ αἰολοσαυρο- ] -- new stem implying “Aeolus-lizard”

-- > [ aeolosauro- ] -- Latinized stem

= “Aeolosaurus ” -- new generic epithet

Aeolosaurus was named for the frequent winds in Patagonia, where Aeolosaurus was discovered.