Lourinhanosaurus
"Lourinhã lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Lourinhanosaurus 4.5 m (14.8 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (150 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · Portugal
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Lourinhanosaurus (meaning “Lourinhã lizard”) was a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian/Tithonian) in Portugal. It is one of many large predators discovered at the Lourinhã Formation and probably competed with coeval Torvosaurus gurneyi, Allosaurus europaeus, and Ceratosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Mateus, 1998.
- Body length estimated at about 4.5 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and Portugal.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Lourinhanosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.