Lirainosaurus Lirainosaurus
"slender lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lirainosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–70 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Lirainosaurus (meaning “slender lizard”; from the Basque lirain, meaning “slender”, and the Greek sauros, meaning “lizard”) is a genus of titanosaur sauropod which lived in what is now Spain. The type species, Lirainosaurus astibiae, was described by Sanz, Powell, Le Loeuff, Martinez, and Pereda-Suberbiola in 1999. It was a relatively small sauropod, measuring 4 m long, possibly up to 6 m long for the largest individuals, and weighed about 2 – 4 MT.
What we know
- Named by Sanz et al., 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Spain.