Wamweracaudia
Field photograph to come
Wamweracaudia
DV-1087
- Lived
- 149 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Mamenchisauridae
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Mannion et al. 2019
Field notes
About Wamweracaudia
Wamweracaudia was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 149 to 143 million years ago. It belongs to the family Mamenchisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Wamweracaudia, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Tendaguru Formation. It was named by Mannion et al. in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Mamenchisauridae.
- MamenchisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- OmeisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- BellusaurusLate Jurassic
- XinjiangtitanMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AbrosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- TongnanlongLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- UragasaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Zigongosaurussauropod
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, and D. Schwarz, O. Wings. 2019. Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909