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Nambalia lived about 203 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.1
Its fossils include bones from at least two different-sized individuals found close together.1
Nambalia was a basal sauropodomorph, meaning it was an early relative of giants like Brachiosaurus.1
Most asked questions about Nambalia
?What did Nambalia eat?
Nambalia was a plant-eater, meaning it ate plants. It was a basal sauropodomorph, an early relative of long-necked giants like Brachiosaurus.14
?When did Nambalia live?
Nambalia lived during the Late Triassic period, about 203 million years ago, in what is now central India. This was during the late Norian to earliest Rhaetian stages.12
?Where was Nambalia found?
Nambalia was found in the Upper Maleri Formation in the Pranhita, Godavari Basin, north of Nambal village in Telangana, central India. Its fossils were discovered there and collected.14
?How big was Nambalia?
The sources do not give a specific size for Nambalia. Its fossils include bones from at least two individuals of different sizes, but no exact measurements are provided.1
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- Scientific name
- Nambalia
- Named by
- Novas et al. 20114
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Sauropodomorpha4
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha4
- Age of the rocks
- 227 to 206 million years (Norian)4
- Rock formations
- Maleri4
- Countries
- India4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Nambalia was discovered north of Nambal village in India. It was named in 2011 by Fernando Novas, Martin Ezcurra, Sankar Chatterjee and T. S. Kutty.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Nambalia was, because only partial skeletons have been found.1
Where the facts come from
- Nambalia (en.wikipedia.org)
- New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of Central India | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh | Cambridge Core (cambridge.org)
- Nambalia roychowdhurii | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Nambalia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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