Lessemsaurus
Field photograph to come
Lessemsaurus
DV-0443 · type species Lessemsaurus sauropoides
- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Lessemsauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Bonaparte 1999
Field notes
About Lessemsaurus
Lessemsaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago. It belongs to the family Lessemsauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Lessemsaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Los Colorados Formation. It was named by Bonaparte in 1999.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
220 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Lessemsauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. F. Bonaparte. 1999. Evolución de las vértebras presacras en Sauropodomorpha [Evolution of the presacral vertebrae in Sauropodomorpha]. Ameghiniana 36(2):115-187