Ibirania parva Ibirania
"Ibirá wanderer"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ibirania 5.7 m (18.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- 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.