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long-neck giant
Adamantisaurus
Say it like this: “AD-uh-MAN-tiss-OR-uhs”
Adamantisaurus mezzalirai
Adamantisaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Brazil.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2006 · Santucci, R. M.; Bertini, R. J.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 13–18 m · 43–59 ft
- Weight
- 5–14.4 tonnes
- Found in
- Brazil · Adamantina
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Aeolosaurini
The story in short
In 2006, R. M. Santucci and R. J. Bertini published the name Adamantisaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Adamantisaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Brazil, including the Adamantina Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Adamantisaurus at a length near 13–18 m and a body mass around 5–14.4 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Aeolosaurini, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aeolosaurus
Aeolosaurus rionegrinus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Arrudatitan
Arrudatitan maximus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Baurutitan
Baurutitan britoi
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago