Dasosaurus tocantinensis
"forest"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dasosaurus 20 m (66 ft) long
as long as 12 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · Brazil · Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Dasosaurus is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Itapecuru Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, Dasosaurus tocantinensis. Its morphology is similar to the titanosauriform Garumbatitan, known from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.
What we know
- Named by Mayer et al., 2026.
- Body length estimated at about 20 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Dasosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.