Lepidocheirosaurus natatilis le-pi-do-CHEI-ro-SOR-us
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lepidocheirosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (168.2–165.3 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Nqwebasauridae
Lepidocheirosaurus is a nqwebasauridae known from the Jurassic period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Alifanov and Saveliev 2015.