Outline: a typical sauropod
Drusilasaura
Type species Drusilasaura deseadensis
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Navarrete et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Drusilasaura
What it was like
Drusilasaura was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from bones of the back, ribs and a shoulder blade.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in the far south of what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Bajo Barreal Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Epachthosaurus and Sarmientosaurus and the predator Xenotarsosaurus.
How it was found
Navarrete and colleagues named it in 2011. The type species is Drusilasaura deseadensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Lognkosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: C. Navarrete, G. Casal, and R. Martínez. 2011. Drusilasaura deseadensis gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo titanosaurio (Dinosauria–Sauropoda), de la Formacíon Bajo Barreal, Cretácico Superior del norte de Santa Cruz, Argentina [Drusilasaura deseadensis gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaur (Dinosauria–Sauropoda), from the Bajo Barreal Formation, Upper Cretaceous of the north of Santa Cruz, Argentina]. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 14(1):1-14