Outline: a typical sauropod
Haestasaurus
- Lived
- 139 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Upchurch et al. 2015
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Haestasaurus
What it was like
Haestasaurus was a long-necked sauropod known from bones of a front leg. A patch of skin impression was found with the bones, one of the first pieces of dinosaur skin ever found.
Its world
It lived about 139 to 133 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England. Its bones come from the Hastings Beds.
How it was found
Its bones were found long ago and were first placed in another genus. Upchurch and colleagues gave it its own name in 2015. The name comes from an old leader for whom the town of Hastings is named.
Close relatives
Other members of Eusauropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. Upchurch, P. D. Mannion, and M. P. Taylor. 2015. The anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of “Pelorosaurus“ becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0125819:1-51