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Sauroposeidon: Beast of the Week
14 June 2026 EN prehistoricbeastoftheweek

Sauroposeidon: Beast of the Week

United States Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Dinosauria Sauroposeidon

 This week we will be checking out a huge dinosaur with an equally impressive name.  Enter Sauroposeidon proteles!Sauroposeidon was a sauropod dinosaur (long neck) that lived in what is now Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming, USA, during the early Cretaceous period, about 113 million years ago.  Its genus name translates to "Lizard Earthquake God" after the Greek god, Poseidon, who in addition to his more famous association with the ocean, was also the god of earthquakes in Greek mythology. Since not

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