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Unaysauridae

Jaklapallisaurus

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jaklapallisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Jaklapallisaurus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (203 Mya)
Place
India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Unaysauridae
Jaklapallisaurus reconstruction by Márcio L. Castro
Reconstruction · Márcio L. Castro (CC-BY)

Jaklapallisaurus is a genus of unaysaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period (late Norian to earliest Rhaetian) in what is now Telangana, central India. The genus is monotypic, only including the species Jaklapallisaurus asymmetricus.

What we know

  • Named by Novas et al., 2011.
  • Fossils found in India.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Jaklapallisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.