Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Dinheirosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dinheirosaurus 25 m (82 ft) long
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- Length
- 25 m (82 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (152–150 Mya)
- Place
- Portugal
- Food
- Herbivore
Dinheirosaurus is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur that is known from fossils uncovered in modern-day Portugal. It may represent a species of Supersaurus. The only species is Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis, first described by José Bonaparte and Octávio Mateus in 1999 for vertebrae and some other material from the Lourinhã Formation. Although the precise age of the formation is not known, it can be dated around the early Tithonian of the Late Jurassic.
The known material includes two cervical vertebrae, nine dorsal vertebrae, a few ribs, a fragment of a pubis, and many gastroliths. Of the material, only the vertebrae are diagnostic, with the ribs and pubis being too fragmentary or general to distinguish Dinheirosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Bonaparte & Mateus, 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 25 m.
- Fossils found in Portugal.