Smitanosaurus
Field photograph to come
Smitanosaurus
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- Lived
- 152 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Whitlock and Wilson Mantilla 2020
Field notes
About Smitanosaurus
Smitanosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 145 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dicraeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Smitanosaurus, from Colorado. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Whitlock and Wilson Mantilla in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. A. Whitlock and J. A. Wilson Mantilla. 2020. The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilis Marsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(5):e1780600:1-28