Named By: | Mateus, Laven, & Knotschke vide Sander et al in 2006 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 154 Ma |
Location: | Germany |
Size: | Up to 6.2 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Many individuals represented by partial remains, including juveniles |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Sauropoda | Macronaria | Camarasauromorpha | |
Europasaurus is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic (middle Kimmeridgian, about 154 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.