Helopus he-LO-pu
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Helopus 18 m (59 ft) long
11 people holding hands
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (143.1–100.5 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Helopus is a euhelopodidae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Wiman 1929.