Berthasaura Berthasaura
"Bertha"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Berthasaura 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Brazil
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Noasauridae
Berthasaura (meaning “Bertha’s lizard”) is an extinct genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Goio-Erê Formation of Paraná, Brazil. The genus contains a single species, Berthasaura leopoldinae, known from a nearly complete skeleton.
What we know
- Named by de Souza et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Brazil.