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long-neck giant
Morinosaurus
Say it like this: “MOR-in-o-SAWR-us”
Morinosaurus typus
Morinosaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1874 · Sauvage, H. E.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- France
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Sauropoda
The story in short
In 1874, H. E. Sauvage published the name Morinosaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago. Finds come from France. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Morinosaurus are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Sauropoda, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aepisaurus
Aepisaurus elephantinus
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Amygdalodon
Amygdalodon patagonicus
Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian · Toarcian) · roughly 192.9 to 174.7 million years ago
Archaeodontosaurus
Archaeodontosaurus descouensi
Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) · roughly 168.2 to 165.3 million years ago