Arkansaurus fridayi Arkansaurus
"Arkansas lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Arkansaurus 4.6 m (15.1 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 4.6 m (15.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- North America
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.