Borealosaurus

Borealosaurus
Classification
Name	Borealosaurus wimani
Name Meaning	Wiman's North Wind Lizard
Species	Dinosaur
Family	Titanosauria
Diet	Herbivore
Physiology
Description	A primitive species of titanosaur
Attributes	Long neck; small crest
Height	6.1 m (20.01 ft)
Length	18.3 m (60.03)
Weight	20 t (44,092.5 Ib)
Biography
Era	Early to Middle Cretaceous
Time	125 to 90 MYA
Discovered	2004
Locations	Asia (China)

Borealosaurus (name meaning "North Wind Lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that originated during the Early Cretaceous period in what is now Asia. Measuring 20 meters long and weighing 20 tons, these were perhaps the largest animals of their time.

In the Series 2 episode "Dinobirds," a herd of a dozen Borealosaurus were brought to the park from Early Cretaceous China, 125 million years ago. They reside in the Sauropod Savanna Enclosure with their fellow sauropod relatives.

Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History

Series 2

The Borealosaurus made it's debut in the episode Dinobirds where a herd was first seen walking to the forest making a lot of noise. Allen explains to Rebecca that large dinosaurs like sauropods aren't usually found in dense forest. This is then followed by the Microraptors feeding off insects uncovered by bioturbation from the Borealosaurus herd. Later on, the team discovers a nesting site and realizes that the herd came so far into the forest to lay their eggs. Shortly after Allen captures a colony of ten Microraptors, the volcano erupts and one of the Borealosaurus panic and stampedes towards a netted Microraptor. Nigel saves it but the sauropod clipped one of it's wings. The team then sees the herd of Borealosaurus going down to the erupting volcano and heads down to save them.

They manages to get them through the time portal just before they died of suffocation. They put the Borealosaurus herd to the Sauropod Savannah enclosure where they roam the open savannas with other sauropod dinosaurs the team rescued.

Series 3

In the episode The Big, the Bad, and the Ugly, Allen travels to the Sauropod Savannah enclosure where observed many of the sauropods roaming the enclosure's savannas and lake. He drove up towards one of the Borealosaurus that was nibbling on leaves of a small tree until it looks down on him and giving him a low growl.

Gallery

A Borealosaurus laying it's eggs in the ground.

Trivia

• Borealosaurus is the smallest sauropod brought to the park.