Padillasaurus
Padillasaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Colombia about 130 million years ago. It is one of the few sauropods ever found in northern South America from the Early Cretaceous period.12
Cando viviu?
Como era de grande?
Canto medía de longo?
Canto medía de alto?
estimación
Canto pesaba?
tan longo coma 4 coches aparcados en fila🍌tan longo coma 100 plátanos postos un tras outro
tan pesado coma 1,5 elefantes🍉tan pesado coma 2000 sandías🎒tan pesado coma 12 clases enteiras de nenos🐻❄️tan pesado coma 22 osos polares🏃podería correr 100 metros en 24 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Padillasaurus comparado CONTIGO?
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Datos curiosos
Padillasaurus was first thought to be a brachiosaurid, a group of sauropods with very long front legs, but newer studies place it as a basal somphospondylan.1
The only known fossils of Padillasaurus are vertebrae from the back, sacrum, and tail, all from one animal.1
Its fossils were found in marine rocks, meaning the dinosaur's body washed into the sea after death.2
Padillasaurus lived about 130 million years ago, during the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.1
The dinosaur was named after Carlos Bernardo Padilla, who helped start a paleontology center in Villa de Leyva.1
Ammonite fossils found with Padillasaurus helped scientists date the rocks to the late Barremian.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Padillasaurus
?How big was Padillasaurus?
It was about 16 to 18 metres long and weighed around 10 tonnes. That is roughly as long as two school buses.13
?What did Padillasaurus eat?
It was a plant-eater. As a sauropod, it ate leaves and other plants.1
?When did Padillasaurus live?
It lived about 130 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Padillasaurus
- Bautizado por
- Carballido et al. 20154
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Somphospondyli4
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria4
- Idade das rochas
- de 126 a 121 millóns de anos (Barremian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Paja4
- Países
- Colombia4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Local farmers found the fossils in a limestone nodule in the 1990s near Villa de Leyva, Colombia. Scientists named it Padillasaurus leivaensis in 2015.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Padillasaurus was because only a few vertebrae have been found.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Padillasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- UJVP_A_980505_O (staff.mef.org.ar)
- Padillasaurus leivaensis (es.wikipedia.org)
- Padillasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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