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Moabosaurus Moabosaurus utahensis Britt et al. 2017
/mˌoʊɐbəsˈɔːɹəs/
estimated
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · 137.1–132.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Region
Utah
Formation
Cedar Mountain
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Moabosaurus utahensis is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 137.1–132.6 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Utah, United States. It was named by Britt et al. 2017. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Moabosaurus utahensis sits in deep time
Moabosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Moabosaurus utahensis'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.