#dinheirosaurus

Top 10 dinosaurs of Dinosaur Revolution.

Bonus No. 1 non-dinosaur:

The sauropod in question, the one who *spoiler alert* gave Broken Jaw the Allosaurus his claim to fame, is not an Apatosaurus or a Supersaurus.

It’s a Dinheirosaurus!

A still can’t believe that “Broken Jaw” the Allosaurus had jumped in and saved the juvenile “Dinheirosaurus” from a Torvosaurus and with the help of the Adult Dinheirosaurus.

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

Name: Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis

Name Meaning: Porto Dinheiro Reptile

First Described: 1999

Described By: Bonaparte & Mateus

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Plateosauria, Massopoda, Sauropodiformes, Anchisauria, Sauropoda, Gravisauria, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Diplodocimorpha, Flagellicaudata, Diplodocidae, Diplodocinae

Dinheirosaurus is a Diplodocid that I somehow missed, so we’re out of the Titanosauriforms! It was found Lourinhã Formation in Portugal, living in the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic, about 152 million years ago. It is known from many vertebrae, some ribs, and part of the hip. It was originally classified as Lourinhasaurus but then was found to be a separate genus. It was about 25 meters long, and thus an average sized diplodocid. It was found in 2015 to lie within Diplodocinae, as a close relative of Supersaurus. It probably had a whip-like tail like its relative and probably had a squared snout, making it a non-selective ground feeding sauropod. It lived alongside many other dinosaurs such as Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Aviatyrannis, Richardoestia, Torvosaurus, Lourinhasaurus, Zby, Lusotitan, Trimucrodon, Alocodon, Dacentrurus, Miragaia, Stegosaurus, Dracopelta, Draconyx, Camptosaurus, Phyllodon, and Dryosaurus. 

Source:

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