Austrosaurus
Austrosaurus mckillopi
Pronounced: Aw - stro -
Saw - rus
Diet: Herbivore
(Plant-eater)
Name Means: "Southern
Lizard"
Length: 50 ft.(15 meters)
Height: 16 ft.(5 meters)
Weight: unknown
Time: Middle Cretaceous -
110 MYA
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in Australia
Austrosaurus was a large, long-necked plant-eater that
lived in Australia. The island nation of Australia is not
known for great fossil discoveries. In fact, paleontologists
must work very hard just to find a few bones. Although the
large sauropod fossil is made up of only a few broken bones,
scientists have determined that it may fit into the same
family as Brachiosaurus.
This was only the second sauropod to be discovered in
Australia and there are very few remains. A few partial
bones of a larger sauropod from another Australian site may
belong to this genus.
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