Buriolestes
"robber."
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Buriolestes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (233 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Buriolestes is a genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. It contains a single species, B. schultzi, named in 2016. The type specimen was found alongside a specimen of the lagerpetid pterosauromorph Ixalerpeton.
What we know
- Named by Cabreira et al. 2016.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Buriolestes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.