Outline: a typical sauropod
Amanzia
- Lived
- 155 to 152 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Switzerland
- Named by
- Schwarz et al. 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
155 million years ago
Field notes
About Amanzia
What it was like
Amanzia was a sauropod, a long-necked plant eater. It belonged to the turiasaurs, a group known mostly from Europe and Africa. Its bones are thick and heavy.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic, in what is now Switzerland. It comes from the Reuchenette Formation, which formed along a coast.
How it was found
Schwarz and colleagues named Amanzia in 2020, for bones that had first been placed in another genus. The name honors a geologist from the region.
Close relatives
Other members of Turiasauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. Schwarz, P. D. Mannion, and O. Wings, C. A. Meyer. 2020. Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia (“Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus”) greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113:2:1-48