Pulanesaura
Pulanesaura was a long-necked dinosaur that lived in South Africa about 200 million years ago. It was a medium-sized plant-eater that could reach leaves without moving its whole body, just like later giant sauropods.12
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Pulanesaura lived alongside other plant-eating dinosaurs like Aardonyx and Arcusaurus, but they ate different plants so they didn't compete for food.1
Its name means 'rain-maker lizard' because the scientists who dug it up worked in very rainy weather.1
Pulanesaura had teeth with grooves on both sides and wrinkly enamel that you could see with your naked eye.2
This dinosaur was a basal sauropod, meaning it was an early relative of the huge long-necked sauropods like Brachiosaurus.12
Its neck was flexible and helped it feed without wasting energy, a trick that later sauropods used to become enormous.1
The fossils were found in a quarry on a farm called Spion Kop in South Africa.2

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Pulanesaura
?How big was Pulanesaura?
About 8 to 10 metres long. It was a medium-sized dinosaur, much smaller than later giant sauropods like Brachiosaurus.12
?What did Pulanesaura eat?
Plants. It was a low browser that ate leaves and ferns near the ground, using its flexible neck to reach food without moving much.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Pulanesaura
- Bautizado por
- McPhee et al. 20154
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Sauropoda4
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda4
- Idade das rochas
- de 201 a 193 millóns de anos (Hettangian / Sinemurian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Elliot4
- Países
- Suráfrica4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Pulanesaura was discovered in 2004 by paleontologist Matthew Bonnan on a farm in South Africa. It was named in 2015 by Blair McPhee and colleagues.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Pulanesaura was, because only partial remains have been found.12
De onde veñen os datos
- Pulanesaura (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new basal sauropod from the pre-Toarcian Jurassic of South Africa: evidence of niche-partitioning at the sauropodomorph, sauropod boundary? | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- South Africa and the Cradle of Sauropod-Kind | The Evolving Paleontologist (matthewbonnan.wordpress.com)
- Pulanesaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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