Tapuiasaurus

DV-0803

Lived: 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: Brazil
Named by: Zaher et al. 2011

Field notes

About Tapuiasaurus

Tapuiasaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tapuiasaurus, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Quiricó Formation. It was named by Zaher et al. in 2011.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Spectrovenatortheropod

Close relatives

Other members of Saltasauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Zaher, D. Pol, and A. B. Carvalho, P. M. Nascimento, C. Riccomini, P. Larson, R. Juarez-Valieri, R. Pires-Domingues, N. J. da Silva, D. d. A. Campos. 2011. A complete skull of an Early Cretaceous sauropod and the evolution of advanced titanosaurians. PLoS One 6(2):e16663:1-10