Malawisaurus
Field photograph to come
Malawisaurus
DV-0358
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 9 m (30 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Malawi
- Named by
- Jacobs et al. 1993
Field notes
About Malawisaurus
Malawisaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Malawisaurus, from Malawi. Its fossils come from the Dinosaur Beds Formation. It was named by Jacobs et al. in 1993.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
To scale
How big was Malawisaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, and W. R. Downs, E. M. Gomani. 1993. New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur from Malawi. Palaeontology 36(3):523-534