Qunkasaura
Field photograph to come
Qunkasaura
DV-1252 · type species Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Saltasauridae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Mocho et al. 2024
Field notes
About Qunkasaura
Qunkasaura was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Saltasauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Qunkasaura, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Villalba de la Sierra Formation. It was named by Mocho et al. in 2024.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Saltasauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Mocho, F. Escaso, and F. Marcos-Fernández, A. Páramo, J. L. Sanz, D. Vidal, F. Ortega. 2024. A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous. Communications Biology 7:1016:1-10