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Saltasauridae

Ibirania parva

"Ibirá wanderer"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ibirania 5.7 m (18.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Ibirania
Length
5.7 m (18.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Brazil
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Saltasauridae

Ibirania (meaning “Ibirá wanderer” or “tree wanderer”) is a genus of dwarf saltasaurine titanosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian) São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Basin) of Southeast Brazil. The type species is Ibirania parva. It is one of the smallest sauropods known to date, comparable in size to the titanosaur Magyarosaurus.

What we know

  • Named by Navarro et al., 2022.
  • Body length estimated at about 5.7 m.
  • Fossils found in Brazil.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Ibirania — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.