Tastavinsaurus sanzi

† Tastavinsaurus sanzi is an Early Cretaceous titanosaur from the Castellan Group of Teruel, Spain. Its fossils add to an increasingly recognized European sauropod fauna that persisted into the Cretaceous in what is now the Iberian Peninsula.

Diet & Feeding

Herbivore

Tastavinsaurus sanzi was a plant-eating dinosaur. Herbivores typically fed on ferns, cycads, conifers, and other vegetation available during their era. Many herbivorous dinosaurs developed specialized teeth and digestive systems for processing tough plant material.

Time Period

Cretaceous Early Mesozoic Era

Tastavinsaurus sanzi lived during the Cretaceous Early period of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 145,0 to 100,5 million years ago.

The Cretaceous saw continued dinosaur evolution with the rise of ornithopods and early ceratopsians. Flowering plants first appeared and began to transform terrestrial ecosystems. Spinosaurus and other large theropods lived during this time.