Malawisaurus
"Malawi lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Malawisaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
as long as 9 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Malawisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.