Opisthocoelicaudia
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Opisthocoelicaudia
DV-0237
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 12 m (39 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods, Saltasauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Borsuk-Bialynicka 1977
Field notes
About Opisthocoelicaudia
Opisthocoelicaudia was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Saltasauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Opisthocoelicaudia, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Borsuk-Bialynicka in 1977.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Opisthocoelicaudia?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Saltasauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. Borsuk-Bialynicka. 1977. A new camarasaurid sauropod <i>Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii</i> gen. n., sp. n. from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 37:5-64