Levnesovia
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Levnesovia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Uzbekistan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Levnesovia is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. It was related to Bactrosaurus. The type species is L. transoxiana. The genus name honours the late Russian paleontologist Lev Nessov, and the specific name refers to the ancient region Transoxiana. It is known from partial skulls, maxillae, dentaries and numerous bones of the postcranial skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Sues and Averianov, 2009.
- Fossils found in Uzbekistan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Levnesovia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.