Limaysaurus Limaysaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Limaysaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
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- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (99.7–94 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Rebbachisauridae
Limaysaurus (“Limay lizard”) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaurs which lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 99.7 to 94 million years ago, in the Cenomanian, in what is now South America (northwestern Patagonia). It is represented by a single species, L. tessonei.
What we know
- Named by Salgado et al., 2004.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.