Lapparentosaurus

Say it la-pah-rent-oh-sore-us. The name means ‘Lapparents lizard’.

No length given in the museum's record.

The museum gives no length for this dinosaur, so we cannot draw it to scale.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of sauropods

Diet: Plant-eater
When: Mid Jurassic169 to 164 million years ago
Fossils found in: Madagascar
Named by: Bonaparte (1986)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Sauropodomorpha › Sauropoda › Macronaria › Titanosauriformes

Where Lapparentosaurus 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

Omeisaurus Mid Jurassic
Cetiosaurus Mid Jurassic
Datousaurus Mid Jurassic
Shunosaurus Mid Jurassic
Patagosaurus Mid Jurassic
Cetiosauriscus Mid Jurassic
Amygdalodon Mid Jurassic
Rhoetosaurus Mid Jurassic

Source: Lapparentosaurus 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.