Gasparinisaura
Field photograph to come
Gasparinisaura
DV-0390
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 0.8 m (3 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria and Salgado 1996
Field notes
About Gasparinisaura
Gasparinisaura was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Gasparinisaura, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Anacleto Formation. It was named by Coria and Salgado in 1996.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Gasparinisaura?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Elasmaria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. A. Coria and L. Salgado. 1996. A basal iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):445-457