Kangnasaurus
"Farm Kangnas lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kangnasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80–66 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · South Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kangnasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.