Europasaurus
Field photograph to come
Europasaurus
DV-0600 · type species Europasaurus holgeri
- Lived
- 152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6.2 m (20 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Sander et al. 2006
Field notes
About Europasaurus
Europasaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 149 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Europasaurus, from Germany. Its fossils come from the Süntel Formation. It was named by Sander et al. in 2006.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
To scale
How big was Europasaurus?
Close relatives
Other members of Camarasauromorpha.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Sander, O. Mateus, and T. Laven, N. Knótschke. 2006. Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature 441:739-741