Alternative spelling: Baraposaurus
Full reference: S. L. Jain, T. S. Kutty, T. Roy-Chowdhury and S. Chatterjee. 1975. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 188:221-228
Parent taxon: Gravisauria according to O. W. M. Rauhut et al. 2020
See also Allain and Aquesbi 2008, Apaldetti et al. 2013, Bandyopadhyay 1999, Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010, Bandyopadhyay et al. 2003, Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta 2006, Benton 1990, Bonaparte 1986, Bonaparte 1986, Bonaparte 1999, Bonaparte and Coria 1993, Calvo and Salgado 1995, Carroll 1988, Dong 1998, Hunt et al. 1995, Jain et al. 1975, Khosla and Bajpai 2021, Ksepka and Norell 2010, Loyal et al. 1996, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 1990, Mocho et al. 2014, Mohabey 2001, Mohabey and Udhoji 1996, Molnar 1980, Otero and Pol 2013, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Salgado et al. 1997, Sekiya 2011, Sereno 1997, Sereno 1998, Sereno 1999, Sereno et al. 1999, Suteethorn et al. 2010, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch et al. 2004, Upchurch et al. 2007, Wilson 2002, Wilson and Sereno 1998, Xing et al. 2015 and Yadagiri 1993
Sister taxa: Amygdalodon, Cetiosaurus, Eusauropoda, Patagosaurus, Spinophorosaurus, Tazoudasaurus, Volkheimeria, Vulcanodontidae
Subtaxa: Barapasaurus tagorei
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of India (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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