Emiliasaura alessandrii Emiliasaura
"Emilia"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Emiliasaura 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Emiliasaura (meaning “Emilia’s lizard”) is an extinct genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) Mulichinco Formation of Neuquén Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Emiliasaura alessandrii, known from three individual specimens. Emiliasaura was initially described as a rhabdodontomorph. If this identification is correct, it would represent the oldest member of this clade and the first named from South America. However, a later analysis of rhabdodontomorphs failed to recover Emiliasaura within this clade, instead placing it as a styracosternan.
What we know
- Named by Coria et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.