Genus: Europasaurus SANDER,
MATEUS, LAVEN & KNÖTSCHKE, 2006
Etymology: In reference to Europe, and Greek, sauros, "lizard": For reptile from
Europe.
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Genus:
Nova
MATEUS,
LAVEN & KNÖTSCHKE, 2004
Species: holgeri SANDER, MATEUS, LAVEN & KNOTSCHKE, 2006
Etymology: In honor of Holger Lüdtke, who discovered the first bones.
Holotype: DFMMh/FV 291
Locality: Langenberg Quarry, a working quarry of the "Rohstoffbetriebe Oker GmbH and Co." for cement and road gravel, southern slope of the Langenberg, 5 km east of Goslar near the Harz Mountians, Oker, near Goslar, Lower Saschen (Saxony) State, Germany.
Horizon: Langenberg Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: Disarticulated left premaxilla, right maxilla, right quadratojugal, occipital region, left laterosphenoid-orbitosphenoid complex, right surangular, right angular, left dentary, teeth, cervical and sacral vertebrae, and cervical and dorsal ribs.
Referred material:
650 skull and skeletal elements.
Note: Dwarf sauropod.
Note: Several bones have bit marks possibly made by the atoposaurid Theriosuchus.
REGENT, WIERSMA-WEYAND, WINGS, KNÖTSCHKE & SANDER, 2024
DfmMh/FV 5801.1, 896.7: 2 ITRS.
DfmMh/FV 032, 61, 652.2, 982: 4 premaxillae.
DfmMh/FV 033, 034, 059, 092, 093, 094, 290, 501, 653, 654, 834.7, 1058.14: 12 dentaries.