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long-neck giant
Lourinhasaurus
Say it like this: “loh-REEN-yah-SAWR-us”
Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis
Lourinhasaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in Portugal.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 1998 · Dantas, P.; Sanz, J. L.; da Silva, C. M.; Ortega, F.; dos Santos, V. F.; Cachão, M.
- Hip height
- 4 m · 13 ft
- Length
- 18 m · 59 ft
- Weight
- 5 tonnes
- Found in
- Portugal · Farta Pão
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Camarasauridae
The story in short
In 1998, P. Dantas and colleagues published the name Lourinhasaurus. The name means “lizard from Lourinhã.”
It lived in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian), roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago. Finds come from Portugal, including the Farta Pão Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Lourinhasaurus at a length near 18 m, hips about 4 m high, and a body mass around 5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Camarasauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.