Outline: a typical sauropod
Suuwassea
"ancient thunder"
Type species Suuwassea emilieae
- Lived
- 152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Harris and Dodson 2004
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Suuwassea
What it was like
Suuwassea was a long-necked sauropod, a relative of Diplodocus and Dicraeosaurus. It is known from a partial skeleton with pieces of the skull. It was fairly small for a sauropod.
Its world
It lived about 152 to 149 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic, in what is now Montana. Its bones come from the Morrison Formation, where it shared the land with Allosaurus and giant sauropods such as Apatosaurus.
How it was found
Harris and Dodson named it in 2004. The type species is Suuwassea emilieae. The name comes from the language of a native people of the region.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. D. Harris and P. Dodson. 2004. A new diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Montana, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(2):197-210