Aratasaurus
"born"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aratasaurus 3.1 m (10.2 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3.1 m (10.2 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (115–110 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Aratasaurus is an extinct genus of basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Romualdo Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, A. museunacionali, known from a partial right leg. Aratasaurus represents the only tetrapod fossil known from the lower levels of the Romualdo Formation.
What we know
- Named by Sayão et al., 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 3.12 m.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Aratasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.