Outline: a typical sauropod
Smitanosaurus
"smith lizard"
- Lived
- 152 to 145 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Whitlock and Wilson Mantilla 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Smitanosaurus
What it was like
Smitanosaurus was a long-necked sauropod from the dicraeosaurid family, which had fairly short necks for sauropods. It is known from the back of a skull and a few neck bones.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Colorado. Its bones come from the Morrison Formation, where it lived alongside Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and many other sauropods.
How it was found
Its bones were first placed in another genus long ago. Whitlock and Wilson Mantilla gave it its own name in 2020.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. A. Whitlock and J. A. Wilson Mantilla. 2020. The Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilis Marsh, 1889 reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(5):e1780600:1-28