Coloradisaurus Coloradisaurus
"Los Colorados lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Coloradisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (213 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina · Colorado, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
Coloradisaurus (meaning “Los Colorados lizard”) is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period (Norian stage) in what is now La Rioja Province, Argentina. It is known from two specimens collected from the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin.
What we know
- Named by Galton, 1990.
- Fossils found in Argentina and Colorado, USA.