Mbiresaurus raathi
"Mbire reptile"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mbiresaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (231.4–228 Mya)
- Place
- Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Mbiresaurus (meaning “Mbire reptile”) is an extinct genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Pebbly Arkose Formation of Zimbabwe. The genus contains a single species, Mbiresaurus raathi, known from a nearly complete skeleton. Mbiresaurus represents one of Africa’s earliest known definitive dinosaurs.
What we know
- Named by Griffin et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in Africa.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Mbiresaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.