Mbiresaurus raathi Mbiresaurus
"Mbire reptile"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mbiresaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (231.4–228 Mya)
- Place
- Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.