The European species may be a synonym of A. Two species, including the type, are known from the United States. Lourinhã Formation ( Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Its ancestors may have migrated from Asia via island-hopping Known only from a humerus which shares some features with camarasaurids and titanosaurs Ĭsehbánya Formation ( Late Cretaceous, Santonian) Possessed keeled oval scutes as well as long spinesĬonques Formation ( Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) It is not closely related to other European sauropodsĬhalk Group ( Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian) Tremp Formation ( Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) List of European dinosaurs Valid genera Name This list is a complement to Category:Dinosaurs of Europe.Fossils of the creature must have been found in Europe.The creature must appear on the List of dinosaur genera.2.2 Dubious, uncertain, and invalid genera.Examples of dinosaurs from Maastrichtian Europe are Struthiosaurus and Canardia. During the Maastrichtian the end of the Cretaceous dinosaurs were dominating western and Central Europe as the Tremp Formation in Spain dates back to that age. At times, it was a chain of island-microcontinents including Baltica and Iberia.Įurope is relatively rich in fossils from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, and much of what is known about European dinosaurs dates from this time. The largest inlet from Panthalassa, the superocean that surrounded Pangaea, was called the Tethys Ocean, and as this inlet cut deeper into the supercontinent, much of Europe was flooded.īy the Cretaceous, from 145 to 66 million years ago, the continents were beginning to approach their present shapes, but not their present positions, and Europe remained tropical. By the start of the Jurassic period, some 30 million years later, the supercontinent began to split into Laurasia and Gondwana. At that time, the earth had one supercontinental landmass, called Pangaea, of which Europe was a part.

The Tethys Ocean splitting Laurasia from Gondwana.ĭinosaurs evolved partway through the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, around 230 Ma (million years ago).

Prehistoric kingdom torvosaurus