Lamplughsaura
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lamplughsaura 10 m (33 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- India
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lamplughsaura is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-aged (Early Jurassic) Dharmaram Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis, known from several partial skeletons of a large quadrupedal animal up to 10 m long. It has been classified as either a basal sauropod or more basal sauropodomorph.
What we know
- Named by Kutty et al., 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 10 m.
- Fossils found in India.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lamplughsaura — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.