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Aragosaurus (meaning "Aragon lizard") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, Teruel, in the province of Aragón, Spain.

Aragosaurus was a large, quadrupedal plant-eating (herbivorous) dinosaur, which lived about 130-120 million years ago, in the Hauterivian-Barremian. It was about 60 ft (18 m) in length and about 28000 kg in weight.

Like other sauropods, it had a long neck, a long powerful tail, a small head and a bulky body. It was broadly similar to Camarasaurus. It is represented by a partial fossil, which was found in Spain and was named by Sanz, Buscalioni, Casanovi and Santafe in 1987. The type species is A. ischiaticus. Like Camarasaurus, Aragosaurus probably had a short, compact skull and a moderately long neck. The teeth were large and wide, and would have been useful for slicing through the leaves and branches of tall conifer trees. The forelimbs were only a little shorter than the hind limbs, and the tail was long and muscular.

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Scientists have uncovered just enough of Aragosaurus to figure out that it was a large plant-eater similar to Camarasaurus. It would have had a rather large, square skull and a fairly short neck for a sauropod.

Study of Aragosaurus fossils indicate that it is almost identical in many ways to, Camarasaurus, its North American cousin. The evidence gleaned from these fossils indicates that it may have been slightly more gracile.

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