Irisosaurus Irisosaurus
"iridescent lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Irisosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Irisosaurus (meaning “iridescent lizard” after the iridescent clouds of Yunnan Province, China) is an extinct genus of sauropodiform sauropodomorph dinosaur, from the Fengjiahe Formation of China. The type species, Irisosaurus yimenensis was formally described in 2020. It was the sister taxon to Mussaurus.
What we know
- Named by Peyre de Fabrègues et al., 2020.
- Fossils found in China.