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Barrosasaurus
Barrosasaurus casamiquelai Salgado and Coria 2009
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 93.9–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Barrosasaurus casamiquelai is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 93.9–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Salgado and Coria 2009. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Barrosasaurus sits in deep time
Barrosasaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Barrosasaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.