Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Giving of December. Neosodon

  Because this genus of possible titanosaur is only based upon teeth,‭ ‬Neosodon is usually treated as a highly dubious genus.‭ ‬First considered to have been a theropod similar to Megalosaurus,‭ ‬then a synonym to Iguanodon,‭ ‬Neosodon was later considered to be a sauropod,‭ ‬perhaps a brachiosaurid‭ (‬similar to Brachiosaurus‭)‬.‭ ‬The‭ ‬2006‭ ‬description of Turiasaurus led to the describers of this genus to note similarities with the Neosodon teeth,‭ ‬leading to speculation that Neosodon might have been a turiasauran titanosaur.

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