Outline: a typical sauropod
Borealosaurus
"northern lizard"
- Lived
- 106 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- You et al. 2004
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Borealosaurus
What it was like
Borealosaurus was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from a few bones, including tail bones and a tooth.
Its world
It lived in the Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Sunjiawan Formation, where it shared the land with the ankylosaur Crichtonpelta and the plant eater Shuangmiaosaurus.
How it was found
You and colleagues named Borealosaurus in 2004.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Titanosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: H. You, Q. Ji, and M. C. Lamanna, J. Li, Y. Li. 2004. A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur with opsithocoelous caudal vertebrae from the early Late Cretaceous of Liaoning province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 78(4):907-911