Galleonosaurus
"galleon lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Galleonosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (125–112 Mya)
- Place
- Australia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Galleonosaurus (meaning “galleon lizard” as the upper jaw bone resembles an upturned galleon) is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Wonthaggi Formation of the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The type and only species is Galleonosaurus dorisae.
What we know
- Named by Herne et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in Australia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Galleonosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.