Limaysaurus Limaysaurus tessonei (Calvo and Salgado 1995)
/lˌɪmeɪsˈɔːɹəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Turonian) · 100.5–89.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Countries
Argentina, Brazil
Regions
Neuquén · Maranhão
Formations
Candeleros · Alcântara · Huincul
Dig sites
6
distinct collections
Overview
Limaysaurus tessonei is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–89.8 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Neuquén, Argentina and elsewhere. It was named by (Calvo and Salgado 1995). The species is represented by 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~21%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Limaysaurus tessonei sits in deep time
Limaysaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Limaysaurus tessonei's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.