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long-neck giant
Smitanosaurus
Say it like this: “SMIT-uh-no-SAWR-us”
Smitanosaurus agilis
Smitanosaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 2020 · Whitlock, J. A.; Wilson Mantilla, J. A.
- Hip height
- 4.5 m · 15 ft
- Length
- 22 m · 72 ft
- Weight
- 17 tonnes
- Found in
- the United States · Morrison
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Dicraeosauridae
The story in short
The genus Smitanosaurus dates to 2020, the year J. A. Whitlock and J. A. Wilson Mantilla described it. The name means “smith lizard.”
Fossils referred to Smitanosaurus date to the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian), roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Morrison Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Smitanosaurus at a length near 22 m, hips about 4.5 m high, and a body mass around 17 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Dicraeosauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.