Austrosaurus mckillopi orstroh-SORRUHS
"southern lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Austrosaurus 20 m (66 ft) long
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- Length
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (112–100 Mya)
- Place
- Australia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Austrosaurus (; “southern lizard”) was an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Allaru Formation, dated to the early Cretaceous (112-100 million years ago), of Central-Western Queensland in Australia. Several specimens are known.
What we know
- Named by Longman, 1933.
- Body length estimated at about 20 m.
- Fossils found in Australia.