Aratasaurus Aratasaurus
"born"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aratasaurus 3.1 m (10.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 3.1 m (10.2 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (115–110 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.