Bellusaurus sui Bellusaurus
"Beautiful lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bellusaurus 4.8 m (15.7 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 4.8 m (15.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (161 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Mamenchisauridae
Bellusaurus (meaning “Beautiful lizard”, from Vulgar Latin bellus ‘beautiful’ (masculine form) and Ancient Greek sauros ‘lizard’) was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) known from juvenile specimens that would have measured about 4.8 m long. Its fossils were found in Shishugou Formation rocks in the northeastern Junggar Basin in China.
What we know
- Named by Dong, 1990.
- Body length estimated at about 4.8 m.
- Fossils found in China.