Iyuku
"hatchling"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Iyuku 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · South Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Iyuku (meaning “hatchling”, pronounced “eye-yoo-koo”) is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa. The type species is Iyuku raathi.
What we know
- Named by Forster et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in Africa and South Africa.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Iyuku — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.