Baotianmansaurus
"lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Baotianmansaurus 23 m (74 ft) long
as long as 13 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 23 m (74 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99–90 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Baotianmansaurus is an extinct genus of somphospondylian sauropod. Its fossils were discovered in the Late Cretaceous Gaogou Formation of Henan Province, China. The type and only species is B. henanensis — named after the province in which it was found.
What we know
- Named by Zhang X. et al., 2009.
- Body length estimated at about 22.5 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Baotianmansaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.