Outline: a typical sauropod
Tehuelchesaurus
"Tehuelche lizard"
Type species Tehuelchesaurus benitezii
- Lived
- 158 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Rich et al. 1999
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Tehuelchesaurus
What it was like
Tehuelchesaurus was a large, long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from a partial skeleton. Skin impressions found with it show its skin was covered in small, rounded scales.
Its place among the sauropods is still debated.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation, where it shared the land with the short-necked Brachytrachelopan.
How it was found
Rich and colleagues named Tehuelchesaurus in 1999, from a single find. It honors a native people of the region.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Camarasauromorpha
Sources: WikidataNamed in: T. H. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, and O. Gimenez, R. Cúneo, P. Puerta, R. Vacca. 1999. A new sauropod dinosaur from Chubut province, Argentina. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:61-84