Epachthosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Cast mounted in rearing pose, Museo Egidio Feruglio | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Genus: | †Epachthosaurus Powell, 1990 |
Type species | |
†Epachthosaurus sciuttoi Powell, 1990
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Epachthosaurus (meaning "heavy lizard") was a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a basal lithostrotian titanosaur. Its fossils have been found in Central and Northern Patagonia in South America.