Arkansaurus fridayi
"Arkansas lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Arkansaurus 4.6 m (15.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4.6 m (15.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Arkansaurus (meaning “Arkansas lizard”) is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now North America. The type and only species is Arkansaurus fridayi.
What we know
- Named by Hunt & Quinn, 2018.
- Body length estimated at about 4.6 m.
- Fossils found in North America.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Arkansaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.