Guaibasaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Guaibasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (225.42 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil · China · India
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Guaibasauridae
Guaibasaurus is an extinct genus of basal saurischian dinosaur known from the Late Triassic Caturrita Formation of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Most analyses recover it as a sauropodomorph, although there are some suggestions that it was a theropod instead. In 2016 Gregory S. Paul estimated it at around 2 meters long (6.6 ft) and 10 kg (22 lbs), whereas in 2020 Molina-Pérez and Larramendi listed it at 3 meters (10 ft) and 35 kg (77 lbs).
What we know
- Named by Bonaparte et al., 1999.
- Fossils found in Brazil and China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Guaibasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.