Mansourasaurus Mansourasaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mansourasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74–72 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Egypt
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Mansourasaurus (“Mansoura lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous lithostrotian sauropod dinosaur from the Quseir Formation of Egypt. The type and only species is Mansourasaurus shahinae.
The discovery of Mansourasaurus was considered quite significant by paleontologists, because very few Late Cretaceous sauropod remains have been found in Africa, where the rocky strata that preserve remains elsewhere and produce rich fossil beds were typically not found exposed at or near ground level.
What we know
- Named by Sallam et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Africa and Egypt.