Yamanasaurus
Yamanasaurus was a small, armored sauropod that lived in what is now Ecuador. It had a long neck and tail, a tiny head, and bony plates in its skin for protection. This dinosaur is the first one ever discovered in Ecuador!12
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Yamanasaurus was a saltasaurine, a group of sauropods that often lived near coasts and may have been small because they lived on islands.12
Its fossils were found by a local farmer in 2017, and scientists later studied them at a university in Ecuador.2
Yamanasaurus had a special kind of bone in its tail vertebrae that was spongy inside, without hollow spaces.12
This dinosaur lived about 66.9 million years ago, right before the asteroid hit that ended the age of dinosaurs.2

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Yamanasaurus
?What did Yamanasaurus eat?
It probably ate low plants, like ferns and shrubs, since it had a small head and a long neck for reaching ground-level food. [wikipedia.org]1
?How big was Yamanasaurus?
It was about 6 metres long, which is small for a sauropod.1
?Where was Yamanasaurus found?
Its fossils were discovered near Yamana, a town in southern Ecuador, close to the Peruvian border. [wikipedia.org]1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Yamanasaurus
- Bautizado por
- Apesteguía et al. 20203
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Saltasauridae3
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
- Idade das rochas
- de 72 a 66 millóns de anos (Maastrichtian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Río Playas3
- Países
- Ecuador3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Yamanasaurus was named in 2020 by Sebastián Apesteguía and colleagues. The fossils were found in 2017 by a farmer in the Yamana area of Loja Province, Ecuador, and later studied by scientists.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Yamanasaurus was, because only a few bones have been found. The length of 6 metres is an estimate.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Yamanasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador (ri.conicet.gov.ar)
- Yamanasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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