Pulanesaura

DV-0931 · type species Pulanesaura eocollum

Lived: 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: South Africa
Named by: McPhee et al. 2015

Field notes

About Pulanesaura

Pulanesaura was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Pulanesaura, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by McPhee et al. in 2015.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropoda.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: B. W. McPhee, M. F. Bonnan, and A. M. Yates, J. Neveling, J. N. Choiniere. 2015. A new basal sauropod from the pre-Toarcian Jurassic of South Africa: evidence of niche-partitioning at the sauropodomorph–sauropod boundary?. Scientific Reports 5:13224:1-12