Genus
Valid Extinct

Austrosaurus

Longman 1933

Austrosaurus was an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Allaru Formation, dated to the early Cretaceous, of Central-Western Queensland in Australia. Several specimens are known.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Austrosaurus
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Austrosaurus mckillopi (QM F2316; holotype [part]) presacral vertebral series in left lateral view. Scale = 20 cm. © Stephen F. Poropat, Phil R. Bell, Lachlan J. Hart, Steven W. Salisbury, & Benjamin P. Kear · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Gravisauria Unranked clade
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Eusauropoda Unranked clade
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Neosauropoda Unranked clade
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Macronaria Unranked clade
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Titanosauriformes Unranked clade
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Somphospondyli Unranked clade
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Austrosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
1
Geological formations
Allaru Mudstone
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Austrosaurus mckillopi 106 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
H. A. Longman. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Cretaceous. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(3):131-144
Bibliography (1)
H. A. Longman. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Cretaceous. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(3):131-144