Lametasaurus Lametasaurus
"Lameta lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lametasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70 Mya)
- Place
- India
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Lametasaurus (; “Lameta lizard”), is a chimeric genus of dinosaur known from the Lameta Formation of Jabalpur, India. The type species is L. indicus. The weight estimate of Lametasaurus, on the basis of the robust tibia, is 3600 kg, similar morphology can be seen in the tibia of Pycnonemosaurus, which indicates similar weight estimates.
What we know
- Named by Matley, 1923.
- Fossils found in India.