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Normanniasaurus

Say it: nor-MAN-ee-uh-SORE-us

Name means: “Normandy lizard”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Cretaceous

Normanniasaurus was a huge, long-necked plant eater that lived in what is now France. It walked on four sturdy legs and munched on leaves from tall trees. This sauropod is one of the oldest titanosaurs known from Europe.1 4

Lived

110 to 106 million years ago4

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Fossils were found in Normandy, France, near Le Havre.1

Food

Plants4

Length

12 to 12.5 m2 3

estimate

Weight

4.4 tonnes2

estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How heavy was it?

as heavy as 3 cars

as long as 3 cars parked in a rowas long as 69 bananas end to endas heavy as 150 big dogsas heavy as 880 watermelons

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Normanniasaurus is known from a partial skeleton, including vertebrae, hip bones, and leg bones.1

It lived about 113 to 107 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.1

Its backbone had special joints that made it strong, and the tail bones were shaped like cups and balls.1

Normanniasaurus is a basal titanosaur, meaning it is an early member of the group that includes the largest land animals ever.1

The first bones were found by Pierre Gencey in July 1990.1

A tail bone found in the 1800s was later recognized as belonging to this species.1

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Scientific name: Normanniasaurus
Named by: Le Loeuff et al. 20134
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Eutitanosauria4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
Age of the rocks: 110 to 106 million years (Albian)4
Rock formations: Poudingue ferrugineux4
Countries: France4
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The first bones were found by Pierre Gencey in 1990 in Normandy, France. Scientists Jean Le Loeuff, Suravech Suteethorn, and Eric Buffetaut named the dinosaur Normanniasaurus genceyi in 2013.1
Still debated: Scientists are still debating exactly how Normanniasaurus is related to other titanosaurs, since its skeleton is incomplete.1

Where the facts come from

Normanniasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Normanniasaurus genceyi | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
A Dinosaur A Day: Normanniasaurus genceyi (a-dinosaur-a-day.com)
Normanniasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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