Morrosaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Morrosaurus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Antarctica
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Morrosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous elasmarian dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous in Antarctica. The only known species is the type Morrosaurus antarcticus.
What we know
- Named by Rozadilla et al., 2016.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
- Fossils found in Antarctica.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Morrosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.