Outline: a typical sauropod
Itapeuasaurus
"Itapeua lizard"
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Lindoso et al. 2019
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Itapeuasaurus
What it was like
Itapeuasaurus was a rebbachisaurid, a long-necked plant eater related to Nigersaurus. It is known from a partial skeleton with bones of the back and tail.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern Brazil. Its bones come from the Alcântara Formation, a coastal land shared with the spinosaur Oxalaia.
How it was found
Lindoso and colleagues named it in 2019. It is named after a beach near where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rebbachisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. M. Lindoso, M. A. A. Medeiros, and I. S. Carvalho, A. A. Pereira, I. D. Mendes, F. V. Iori, E. P. Sousa, S. H. S. Arcanjo, T. C. M. Silva. 2019. A new rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) from the middle Cretaceous of northern Brazil. Cretaceous Research 104:104191:1-15