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Lamplughsaura

Say it: LAM-plug-SORE-uh

Name means: “Lamplugh's lizard, named after Pamela Lamplugh Robinson”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Jurassic

Lamplughsaura was a big, heavy plant-eater that lived in India during the Early Jurassic. It walked on all fours and could grow as long as a school bus!1

Lived

201 to 193 million years ago5

Early Jurassic

Fossils found in

Pranhita,Godavari Basin, India1

Food

Plants1 5

Length

up to 10 m1 2

Weight

up to 1.2 tonnes3

estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 40 big dogs

as long as 2 cars parked in a rowas long as 56 bananas end to endas heavy as 240 watermelons

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Fun facts

Lamplughsaura lived about 200 to 193 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic period.5

Its skull was 27 cm (11 in) long, bigger than the skulls of Plateosaurus and Riojasaurus.1

The fossils were discovered in 1972 by Tharavati S. Kutty, but the dinosaur was not named until 2007.1

Lamplughsaura shared its home with another sauropodomorph called Pradhania, and may have been hunted by a dinosaur similar to Dilophosaurus.1

Scientists are not sure if Lamplughsaura was an early sauropod or a more primitive sauropodomorph.1 2

The bones of the skull were found scattered, which suggests the animal was not fully grown when it died.1

Its tail had special spines that got shorter toward the tip, making the tail end thin.1

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Most asked questions about Lamplughsaura

?How big was Lamplughsaura?

About 10 metres (33 feet) long. It was a large, heavily built plant eater.1 2

?What did Lamplughsaura eat?

It was an herbivore, meaning it ate plants.4

?When did Lamplughsaura live?

It lived during the Early Jurassic period, about 200 to 193 million years ago.1

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Scientific name: Lamplughsaura
Named by: Kutty et al. 20075
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Sauropoda5
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda5
Age of the rocks: 201 to 193 million years (Hettangian / Sinemurian)5
Rock formations: Dharmaram5
Countries: India5
Fossil records: 4 in the Paleobiology Database5
Discovery: Tharavati S. Kutty found the first fossils in 1972 in India. In 2007, Kutty and his team named the dinosaur Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis after Pamela Lamplugh Robinson and the Dharmaram Formation.1
Still debated: Scientists still debate whether Lamplughsaura was a true sauropod or a more primitive sauropodomorph.1 2

Where the facts come from

Lamplughsaura (en.wikipedia.org)
Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships (cambridge.org)
Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Lamplughsaura Kutty et al. 2007 - Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org)
Lamplughsaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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