Bravasaurus arrierosorum
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bravasaurus 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Bravasaurus (meaning Laguna Brava lizard) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Ciénaga del Río Huaco Formation of La Rioja, Argentina. It contains one species, Bravasaurus arreirosorum.
What we know
- Named by Hechenleitner et al., 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 7 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Bravasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.