Outline: a typical sauropod
Galvesaurus
"Galve lizard"
- Lived
- 152 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Brachiosauridae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Barco et al. 2005
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Galvesaurus
What it was like
Galvesaurus was a sauropod, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from part of the skeleton, including neck, back and tail bones.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic, in what is now Spain. It comes from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation, where it shared the land with the huge sauropod Turiasaurus and the stegosaur Dacentrurus.
How it was found
Barco and colleagues named Galvesaurus in 2005. Another team gave the same bones the name Galveosaurus in the same year, which caused a dispute over which name to use.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Brachiosauridae
Named in: J. L. Barco, J. I. Canudo, and G. Cuenca-Bescós, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2005. Un nuevo dinosaurio saurópodo, Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov., del tránsito Jurásico-Cretácico en Galve (Teruel, NE de España) [A new sauropod dinosaur, Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov., from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Galve (Teruel, NE Spain)]. Naturaleza Aragonesa 15:4-17