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Description Yes, I'm still doing digital life restorations! Decided to experiment with some thicker linework for this one.
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Barapasaurus tagorei
(Jain, 1975)

Temporal range: Early Jurassic, Sinemurian-Pliensbachian, between ~199-183 Ma
Location: India, southern Asia

Length: est. 12 metres (Paul, 2016)
Probable mass: est. 7 tonnes (Paul, 2016)

Etymology: Tagore's big legged reptile


Life restoration of the basal sauropod Barapasaurus tagorei, found from the Early Jurassic Kota Formation in India. Initially an informal name since a large femur was found during the early stage excavations in 1961, it was formally described in 1975 with ISIR 50 (a sacrum) being designated as the holotype.
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Based on Greg Paul's skeletal reconstruction from The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (2016 edition).
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