Outline: a typical sauropod
Ohmdenosaurus
"Ohmden lizard"
Type species Ohmdenosaurus liasicus
- Lived
- 183 to 180 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Wild 1978
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
180 million years ago
Field notes
About Ohmdenosaurus
What it was like
Ohmdenosaurus was an early sauropod, a long-necked plant eater. It is known only from a shin bone and ankle, which suggest a fairly small animal for a sauropod.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic, in what is now Germany. It comes from the Posidonia Shale, rocks laid down in a sea, famous for ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles. Its bones probably washed out from land.
How it was found
Wild named Ohmdenosaurus in 1978. The type species is Ohmdenosaurus liasicus. The bones were first thought to belong to a plesiosaur.
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Wild. 1978. Ein Sauropoden-Rest (Reptilia, Saurischia) aus dem Posidonienschiefer (Lias, Toarcium) von Holzmaden [A new sauropod (Reptilia, Saurischia) from the Posidonienschiefer (Lias, Toarcian) of Holzmaden]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 41:1-15