Outline: a typical sauropod
Barapasaurus
ba-RAH-pa-SORE-us
"big leg lizard"
Type species Barapasaurus tagorei
- Lived
- 200 to 184 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 14 m (46 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Jain et al. 1975
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
190 million years ago
Field notes
About Barapasaurus
What it was like
Barapasaurus was one of the earliest true sauropods, a long-necked plant eater about 14 meters (46 feet) long. It had long, straight legs, a long neck and spoon-shaped teeth with rough edges. No skull has been found.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic, in what is now India. Its bones come from the Kota Formation, where it shared the land with the smaller sauropod Kotasaurus.
How it was found
Jain and colleagues named Barapasaurus in 1975. The type species is Barapasaurus tagorei. Hundreds of bones from several animals were found together, so most of its skeleton is known.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Gravisauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. L. Jain, T. S. Kutty, and T. Roy-Chowdhury, S. Chatterjee. 1975. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 188:221-228