Meroktenos thabanensis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Meroktenos 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (216.5–201 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Meroktenos is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period of what is now Lesotho.
What we know
- Named by Peyre de Fabrègues & Allain, 2016.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Meroktenos — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.