Kangnasaurus Kangnasaurus

"Farm Kangnas lizard"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kangnasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (80–66 Mya)
Place
Africa · South Africa
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Kangnasaurus (meaning “Farm Kangnas lizard”) is a genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur found in Late Cretaceous rocks of South Africa. It is known from a tooth and possibly some postcranial remains dating between the middle-Campanian to Maastrichtian Kalahari Deposits Formation.

What we know

  • Named by Haughton, 1915.
  • Fossils found in Africa and South Africa.