at least 35,000 years after that deposit there was a drop in sea level which allowed for a faunal overturn. The inhabiting theropods of the island, that coexisted with Europasaurus, would have been about , but the theropods that arrived over the land bridge preserve footprints up to , which indicates a body size between if reconstructed as an allosaurian. It was suggested by the describers of these tracks (Jens Lallensack and colleagues), that these theropod taxa likely made the specialized dwarf fauna extinct, and the bed from which the footprints originated (Langenberg bed 92) is probably the youngest in which Europasaurus is present. References Further reading Brachiosaurs Late Jurassic dinosaurs of Europe Jurassic Germany Fossils of Germany Fossil taxa described in 2006 Taxa named by Octávio Mateus