Brasileosaurus pachecoi Brasileosaurus
"Brazil lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brasileosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–68 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.