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 honer 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.