Elemgasem nubilus Elemgasem
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Elemgasem 3.6 m (11.7 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 3.6 m (11.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (90.5–88.5 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Elemgasem (after a Tehuelche god of the same name) is an extinct genus of brachyrostran abelisaurid from the Late Cretaceous Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Elemgasem nubilus. The cladistic position of Elemgasem within Brachyrostra is uncertain, given that phylogenetic analyses recover it as either a sister taxon to Furileusauria or in several positions within this clade.
What we know
- Named by Baiano et al., 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 3.58 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.