Brasileosaurus pachecoi
"Brazil lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brasileosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–68 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Brasileosaurus (meaning “Brazil lizard”) is a genus of notosuchid notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is B. pachecoi, discovered by the Brazilian Eng. Joviano Pacheco and described by the prolific German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1931.
Brasileosaurus is not to be confused with the mesosaur Brazilosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Huene, 1931.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Brasileosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.