Smitanosaurus

Smitanosaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, 155.7–145.5 Ma
Back of the skull and neck vertebrae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Superfamily: Diplodocoidea
Family: Dicraeosauridae
Genus: Smitanosaurus
Whitlock & Wilson, 2020
Type species
Smitanosaurus agilis
(Marsh, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Camarasaurus agilis (Marsh, 1889)
  • Morosaurus agilis Marsh, 1889

Smitanosaurus (meaning "smith lizard") is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Colorado. The genus contains one species, S. agilis, originally assigned to the defunct genus Morosaurus.[1]

  1. ^ John A. Whitlock; Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla (2020). "The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur 'Morosaurus' agilis Marsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (6): e1780600. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E0600W. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1780600.