Outline: a typical sauropod
Abydosaurus
"Abydos lizard"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Brachiosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Chure et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Abydosaurus
What it was like
Abydosaurus was a brachiosaur, a long-necked plant eater with front legs longer than its back legs, related to Brachiosaurus. It is best known for its skulls, which are rare finds for sauropods.
It had narrow teeth for cropping leaves, narrower than those of its older relatives.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Utah, in the United States. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain Formation.
How it was found
Chure and colleagues named Abydosaurus in 2010. Its bones came from a quarry near a national monument famous for fossils. Four skulls were found, two of them nearly complete.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Brachiosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. J. Chure, B. B. Britt, and J. A. Whitlock, J. A. Wilson. 2010. First complete sauropod dinosaur skull from the Cretaceous of the Americas and the evolution of sauropod dentition. Naturwissenschaften