Mansourasaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mansourasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74–72 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Egypt
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Mansourasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.