Austrosaurus
Field photograph to come
Austrosaurus
DV-0151 · type species Austrosaurus mckillopi
- Lived
- 106 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 15 m (49 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Longman 1933
Field notes
About Austrosaurus
Austrosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 106 to 101 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Austrosaurus, from Australia. Its fossils come from the Allaru Mudstone Formation. It was named by Longman in 1933.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
105 million years ago
To scale
How big was Austrosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. A. Longman. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Cretaceous. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(3):131-144