Outline: a typical sauropod
Euhelopus
yoo-HEL-oh-pus
"good marsh foot"
- Lived
- 143 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 10 m (33 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Romer 1956
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
140 million years ago
Field notes
About Euhelopus
What it was like
Euhelopus was a long-necked sauropod about 10 meters (33 feet) long. Its front legs were longer than its back legs, so its back sloped down from the shoulders, a little like a giraffe. Its neck was very long, with many bones.
Its world
It lived about 143 to 133 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now China. Its bones come from the Mengyin Formation.
How it was found
It was first given a different name, which turned out to be taken by another animal, and Romer renamed it Euhelopus in 1956. It was the first sauropod studied scientifically from China.
Close relatives
Other members of Euhelopodidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. S. Romer. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press