Pelorosaurus
Field photograph to come
Pelorosaurus
DV-0011 · type species Pelorosaurus conybeari
- Lived
- 145 to 126 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 25 m (82 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- France and United Kingdom
- Named by
- Mantell 1850
Field notes
About Pelorosaurus
Pelorosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 145 to 126 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Pelorosaurus, from France and United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. It was named by Mantell in 1850.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
135 million years ago
To scale
How big was Pelorosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Titanosauriformes.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: G. A. Mantell. 1850. On the Pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile, whose remains are associated with those of Iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of the Tilgate Forest, in Sussex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 140(16):379-390