Ohmdenosaurus

Type Species: Ohmdenosaurus liasicus

Classification: Dinosauria – Saurischia – Sauropoda

Time Period: Early Jurassic

Location: Europe (Germany)

Diet: Herbivore

Ohmdenosaurus is one of the few fossilized sauropods found in Europe (most sauropods of the Jurassic tended to gather around the Tethys Sea coastlines). Ohmdenosaurus would’ve reached to about twenty-two feet in length and weighed around 2900 pounds. Its remains were found in an area that had been a series of islands in the region of modern-day Bohemia. These islands were rather large – much like Ireland being an ‘extended island’ of the British Isles – and sported a variety of environments, from seacoasts, river deltas, mangrove-like swamps, lagoons, and brackish waters. These islands were subject to monsoons and large scale rains, which resulted in a vast amount of insect fossils from this time period. Southern summers with humid south-west monsoons resulted in winters hit by dry northeast trade winds. Ohmdenosaurus lived among ocean-going crocodylomorphs such as Platysuchus and lizard-like marine rhynchosaurs such as Palaeopleurosaurus. The fossilized remains of the pterosaurs Campylognathoides and Dorygnathus have also been discovered in the environment.