-
- Pronounced: AM-uh-SAW-rus
- Name means: "Sand Lizard"
- Naming credit: Othniel Charles Marsh (1889)
- Range: North America
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Type species
- Period: Early Jurassic
- Length: Up to 15 feet
- Height: Up to 6 feet
- Weight: Up to 300 pounds
- Known through fragmented remains
-
-
The Ammosaurus is a dinosaur of which little is known, despite it being one of the earliest discovered during the boom of paleontology in the late 19th Century.
-
Great Things To Come
Ammosaurus appears to be one of the Sauropodomorpha, the dinosaurs that began as bipedal omnivores and eventually evolved into the Sauropods, those gigantic, long-necked quadropedal herbivores of the middle Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. -
-
Ammosaurus Books and Related Merchandise
- Google Books: Ammosaurus
- Amazon.com: Ammosaurus
- Prehistoric Planet Store: Ammosaurus Claw
- This page was created by Kerry K, a Part Time Guide in the Mahalo Greenhouse (see the original), and curated by Lori M.
- If you'd like to help us create the best spam free search results on the Internet, apply to be a Part Time Guide!</em>
About this page
-
Page Views0
No one is currently managing this page.
This page currently has no vertical manager.
