Laplatasaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0135Anacleto Fm., Argentina

Laplatasaurus

DV-0135

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Huene 1927

Field notes

About Laplatasaurus

Laplatasaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Laplatasaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Anacleto Formation. It was named by Huene in 1927.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Titanosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1927. Short review of the present knowledge of the Sauropoda. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(1):121-126