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Sonorasaurus, the Glossary

Sonorasaurus is a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian stages, around 112 to 93 million years ago).^[1]

35 relations: Albian, American Museum of Natural History, Arizona, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Brachiosauridae, Brachiosaurus, Cedarosaurus, Cenomanian, Chihuahuan Desert, Cretaceous, Dinosaur, Early Cretaceous, Edwin H. Colbert, Europasaurus, Genus, Geologic time scale, Giraffatitan, Hadrosauridae, Herbivore, Kritosaurus, Late Cretaceous, Lusotitan, Million years ago, Nomen nudum, North America, Sauropoda, Sonora River, Sonoran Desert, Stage (stratigraphy), Therizinosauria, Tucson, Arizona, Turney Ranch Formation, Type species, Venenosaurus, Vouivria.
Brachiosaurs
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America
Paleontology in Arizona
Symbols of Arizona

Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952.

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Brachiosauridae

The Brachiosauridae ("arm lizards", from Greek brachion (βραχίων). Sonorasaurus and Brachiosauridae are brachiosaurs.

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Brachiosaurus

Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154to 150million years ago. Sonorasaurus and Brachiosaurus are brachiosaurs.

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Cedarosaurus (meaning "Cedar lizard" - named after the Cedar Mountain Formation, in which it was discovered) was a nasal-crested macronarian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous Period (Valanginian). Sonorasaurus and Cedarosaurus are brachiosaurs and early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Chihuahuan Desert

The Chihuahuan Desert (Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.

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Europasaurus

Europasaurus (meaning 'Europe lizard') is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. Sonorasaurus and Europasaurus are brachiosaurs.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.

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Giraffatitan

Giraffatitan (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. Sonorasaurus and Giraffatitan are brachiosaurs.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Kritosaurus

Kritosaurus is an incompletely known genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. Sonorasaurus and Kritosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lusotitan

Lusotitan is a genus of herbivorous brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of Portugal. Sonorasaurus and Lusotitan are brachiosaurs.

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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Nomen nudum

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Sonora River

Río Sonora (Sonora River) is a 402-kilometer-long river of Mexico.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Therizinosauria

Therizinosaurs (once called segnosaurs) are an extinct group of large herbivorous theropod dinosaurs whose fossils have been found across the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous deposits in Europe, Asia and North America.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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Turney Ranch Formation

The Turney Ranch Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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Venenosaurus

Venenosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah during the Early Cretaceous. Sonorasaurus and Venenosaurus are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America.

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Vouivria

Vouivria is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, belonging to the Brachiosauridae, that lived in the area of present France during the Late Jurassic. Sonorasaurus and Vouivria are brachiosaurs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonorasaurus

Also known as Chihuahuasaurus, Sonorasaurus thompsoni.

Sonorasaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Brachiosaurs

Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America

Paleontology in Arizona

Symbols of Arizona

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