Oblitosaurus

DV-1215

Lived: 152 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: Spain
Named by: Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2023

Field notes

About Oblitosaurus

Oblitosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 152 to 143 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Oblitosaurus, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation. It was named by Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. in 2023.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

150 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Dryomorpha.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Sánchez-Fenollosa, F. J. Verdú, and A. Cobos. 2023. The largest ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of Europe sheds light on the evolutionary history of basal ankylopollexians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society