Barapasaurus

Say it Bar-rap-oh-SORE-us. The name means ‘big leg lizard’.

Barapasaurus beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of sauropods

Length: 14 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Early Jurassic185 to 170 million years ago
Fossils found in: India
Named by: Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury and Chatterjee (1975)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Sauropodomorpha › Sauropoda › Eusauropoda › Cetiosauridae

Where Barapasaurus sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Sauropods. Long-necked, four-legged plant-eaters, the biggest animals ever to walk on land. See all 59

Lived at the same time

Other sauropods

Bellusaurus Mid Jurassic
Yuanmousaurus Mid Jurassic
Amygdalodon Mid Jurassic
Rhoetosaurus Mid Jurassic
Cetiosauriscus Mid Jurassic
Cetiosaurus Mid Jurassic
Datousaurus Mid Jurassic
Shunosaurus Mid Jurassic

Source: Barapasaurus in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.