Isisaurus
"lizard."
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Isisaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
as long as 11 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
- Place
- India
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Isisaurus (named after the Indian Statistical Institute) is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation of India and Pab Formation of Pakistan. The genus contains a single species, Isisaurus colberti.
What we know
- Named by (Jain & Bandyopadhyay, 1997).
- Body length estimated at about 18 m.
- Fossils found in India.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Isisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.