Outline: a typical sauropod
Zapalasaurus
"Zapala lizard"
- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Salgado et al. 2006
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Zapalasaurus
What it was like
Zapalasaurus was a rebbachisaur, a long-necked plant eater from a family related to Diplodocus. It is known from part of the backbone, hips and legs.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the La Amarga Formation, where it shared the land with the spiny-necked Amargasaurus and the small hunter Ligabueino.
How it was found
Salgado and colleagues named Zapalasaurus in 2006, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rebbachisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: L. Salgado, I. d. S. Carvalho, and A. C. Garrido. 2006. Zapalasaurus bonapartei, un nuevo saurópodo de La Formación La Amarga (Cretacico Inferior), noroeste de Patagonia, Provincia de Neuquén, Argentina [Zapalasaurus bonapartei, a new sauropod from the La Amarga Formation (Lower Cretaceous), northwestern Patagonia, Neuquén province, Argentina]. Géobios 39:695-707