Manidens Manidens
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Manidens 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (179.17–178.07 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Argentina · South Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Heterodontosauridae
Manidens is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia. It is a sister taxon of the closely related Pegomastax from South Africa. Fossils have been found in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation in Chubut Province, Argentina, considered to be originally dated to the Bajocian, latter were found to be from Toarcian beds.
What we know
- Named by Pol et al. 2011.
- Fossils found in Africa and Argentina.