Malawisaurus Malawisaurus
"Malawi lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Malawisaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
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- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Malawisaurus (meaning “Malawi lizard”) is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur. It is known from the Dinosaur Beds of northern Malawi, which probably date to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous. The type species is M. dixeyi and the specific name honours Frederick Augustus Dixey.
What we know
- Named by (Haughton, 1928) [originally Gigantosaurus, preoccupied].
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.