Arizonasaurus
Sign in to saveArizonasaurus (meaning "Arizona reptile") is a genus of ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic (243 million years ago) Moenkopi Formation of what is now Arizona. It is known for having a large back sail formed by elongated neural spines of its vertebrae. The type and only known species is A. babbitti, named and described in 1947.
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- Parent taxon
- Ctenosauriscidae
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- Arizonasaurus BW.jpg
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- Arizonasaurus
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- Arizonasaurus
- time period
- Middle Triassic
- start time
- 243000000-
- end time
- 243000000-
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Arizonasaurus (meaning "Arizona reptile") is a genus of ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic (243 million years ago) Moenkopi Formation of what is now Arizona. It is known for having a large back sail formed by elongated neural spines of its vertebrae. The type and only known species is A. babbitti, named and described in 1947.
==Discovery and naming== The type species, Arizonasaurus babbitti, was named by Samuel Paul Welles in 1947 on the basis of a few teeth and a maxilla, labelled as specimen UCMP 36232. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling Nesbitt.
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