Europasaurus holgeri Europasaurus
"Europe lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Europasaurus 3.7 m (12.1 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 3.7 m (12.1 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (154–151 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · Germany
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.