Algoasaurus

 Algoasaurus (/ælˌɡoʊ.əˈsɔːrəs/; "Algoa Bayreptile") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Berriasian-early Valanginian-age Early Cretaceous Upper Kirkwood Formation of Cape Province, South Africa. It was a neosauropod; although it has often been assigned to the Titanosauridae, there is no evidence for this, and recent reviews have considered it to be an indeterminatesauropod.

Algoasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 140–125 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Femur, vertebra and scapula (holotype)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Sauropoda
Clade:	†Neosauropoda
Genus:	†Algoasaurus Broom, 1904
Species:	†A. bauri
Binomial name
†Algoasaurus bauri Broom, 1904

The type species, A. bauri, was named by Robert Broom in 1904 from a cervical vertebra, femur, an ungual phalanx and a scapula. The fossils were recovered in 1903 from a quarry by workmen who did not recognize them as dinosaur specimens, so many of the bones, probably including the rest of the once near-complete holotype, were made into bricks and thus destroyed. The animal may have been around 9 m (30 ft) long when it died.

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