Asylosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0620Magnesian Conglomerate Fm., United Kingdom

Asylosaurus

DV-0620

Lived
206 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group
Early sauropodomorphs
Found in
United Kingdom
Named by
Galton 2007

Field notes

About Asylosaurus

Asylosaurus was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 206 to 201 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Asylosaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Magnesian Conglomerate Formation. It was named by Galton in 2007.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

200 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodomorpha.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 2007. Notes on the remains of archosaurian reptiles, mostly basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs, from the 1834 fissure fill (Rhaetian, Upper Triassic) at Clifton in Bristol, southwest England. Revue de Paléobiologie 26(2):505-591