Haestasaurus

DV-0918

Lived: 139 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: United Kingdom
Named by: Upchurch et al. 2015

Field notes

About Haestasaurus

Haestasaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 139 to 133 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Haestasaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Hastings Beds Formation. It was named by Upchurch et al. in 2015.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

135 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Eusauropoda.

ShunosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
JobariaLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
RhoetosaurusLate Jurassic
JanenschiaLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
HuashanosaurusEarly Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
LapparentosaurusMiddle Jurassic
CardiodonMiddle Jurassic
BagualiaEarly Jurassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Upchurch, P. D. Mannion, and M. P. Taylor. 2015. The anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of “Pelorosaurus“ becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0125819:1-51