Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kholumolumo 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (210 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Kholumolumo (referring to a type of dragon the local Basuto associate with dinosaurs), formerly “Kholumolumosaurus” or “Thotobolosaurus”, is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur, which was closely related to Sarahsaurus, from the lower Elliot Formation of Maphutseng, Lesotho. The type species, Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum was formally described in 2020.
What we know
- Named by Peyre de Fabrègues & Allain, 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 9 m.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kholumolumo — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.