Name: Amanzia
(named after Amanz Gressly).
Phonetic: Ah-man-ze-ah.
Named By: Daniela Schwarz, Philip Mannion,
Oliver Wings & Christian Meyer - 2020.
Synonyms: Ornithopsis greppini,
Cetiosauriscus greppini.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Turiasauria.
Species: A. greppini (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Known individuals roughly estimated to be
about 8.5 to 9 meters long.
Known locations: Switzerland - Reuchenette
Formation.
Time period: Kimmeridgian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton
including front and rear limbs, and vertebrae from neck and tail.
Partial skull bones and a tooth have been assigned to the genus.
Amanzia
is a genus of sauropod
dinosaur that lived in Europe during the late
Jurassic. Amanzia is the first sauropod dinosaur
known from
Switzerland.
Further reading
- Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia
("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n.
gen. and other
vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic)
Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. - Swiss Journal
of Geosciences. - Daniela Schwarz, Philip Mannion, Oliver
Wings & Christian Meyer - 2020.