Image by Vincent Lynch · Public domain · View on Wikimedia Commons
🦴 Known fossil material
Pelorosaurus is known from only part of its skeleton. This diagram shows which parts of the body have been found.
Parts found as fossils
- Tail vertebrae
- Arm or front leg
Named from four tail vertebrae with three chevrons and a large upper-arm bone (humerus) found a few metres away, which may not be from the same animal. Most other bones once placed in this genus now belong to other genera.
Note: this genus, or which bones belong to it, is still debated.
Coloured areas are parts of the skeleton with fossil bones found so far (sometimes just one bone in that area); faint areas have not been found. The outline is a general shape for its group, not this dinosaur's real body.
Compiled from published descriptions; not yet checked against the original papers by a specialist. Sources: Wikipedia (en): Pelorosaurus
Pelorosaurus
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Pelorosaurus (Tunbridge Wells Sand), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Hylaeosaurus
Valdosaurus
Iguanodon
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Sauropodomorph (long-necked)
- Family
- Unknown
- When it lived
- 110.1–145.06 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Tithonian – Albian
- Named by
- Mantell, 1850
- Fossil occurrences
- 3 sites
Countries with fossils
- France
- United Kingdom
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata