Jainosaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jainosaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
as long as 11 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (68 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · India
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Jainosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur of India and wider Asia, which lived in the Maastrichtian (approximately 68 million years ago). It is thought to have been about the same size as its contemporary relative Isisaurus, measuring 18 m long and weighing 15 MT. The humerus of the type specimen is 134 centimetres long.
What we know
- Named by Hunt et al., 1995.
- Body length estimated at about 18 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and India.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jainosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.