Outline: a typical sauropod
Atlasaurus
"Atlas lizard"
Type species Atlasaurus imelakei
- Lived
- 168 to 165 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Morocco
- Named by
- Monbaron et al. 1999
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
165 million years ago
Field notes
About Atlasaurus
What it was like
Atlasaurus was a large long-necked sauropod with very long legs. It is known from a nearly complete skeleton.
Its world
It lived about 168 to 165 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic, in what is now Morocco. Its bones come from the Guettioua Formation.
How it was found
Monbaron and colleagues named it in 1999. The type species is Atlasaurus imelakei. It is named after the mountains where it was found.
Close relatives
Other members of Macronaria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. Monbaron, D. A. Russell, and P. Taquet. 1999. Atlasaurus imelakei n.g., n.sp., a brachiosaurid-like sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329:519-526