Outline: a typical sauropod
Savannasaurus
"savanna lizard"
Type species Savannasaurus elliottorum
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Poropat et al. 2016
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Savannasaurus
What it was like
Savannasaurus was a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater with a very wide body. Its broad hips and chest suggest it had a huge gut for digesting plants.
It is the most complete long-necked dinosaur found in Australia.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Australia. Its bones come from the Winton Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Diamantinasaurus and Wintonotitan and the hunter Australovenator.
How it was found
Poropat and colleagues named Savannasaurus in 2016. The first bone was found by a sheep farmer, and the skeleton took years to dig out and prepare.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Diamantinasauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch, S. A. Hocknull, B. P. Kear, M. Kundrát, T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, G. H. K. Sinapius, J. A. Elliott, D. A. Elliott. 2016. New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography. Scientific Reports 6:34467:1-12