Europasaurus holgeri
"Europe lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Europasaurus 3.7 m (12.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3.7 m (12.1 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (154–151 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · Germany
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Europasaurus (meaning ‘Europe lizard’) is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic (middle Kimmeridgian, from about 154 to 151 million years ago) of northern Germany, and has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island within the Lower Saxony basin.
What we know
- Named by Mateus et al. in Sander et al., 2006.
- Body length estimated at about 3.7 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and Germany.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Europasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.