Dinosauria › Saurischia › Sauropodomorpha › Saltasauridae
Neuquensaurus
Neuquensaurus australis (Lydekker 1893)
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 85.7–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Neuquensaurus australis is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 85.7–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Lydekker 1893). The species is represented by 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~27%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Neuquensaurus sits in deep time
Neuquensaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Neuquensaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.