Outline: a typical sauropod
Padillasaurus
"Padilla lizard"
- Lived
- 126 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Colombia
- Named by
- Carballido et al. 2015
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Padillasaurus
What it was like
Padillasaurus was a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from part of the backbone. It was first described as a brachiosaur, a relative of Brachiosaurus, but later studies place it elsewhere among the relatives of the titanosaurs.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Colombia. Its bones come from the Paja Formation, rocks laid down in the sea.
How it was found
Carballido and colleagues named Padillasaurus in 2015, from a single find. It was one of the first dinosaurs named from Colombia.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. L. Carballido, D. Pol, and M. L. Parra Ruge, S. Padilla Bernal, M. E. Páramo-Fonseca, F. Etayo-Serna. 2015. A new Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid (Dinosauria, Neosauropoda) from northwestern Gondwana (Villa de Leiva, Colombia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e980505:1-12