Musankwa sanyatiensis
"boy close to marriage"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Musankwa 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (237–201 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Musankwa is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic (Norian) Pebbly Arkose Formation of Zimbabwe. The genus contains a single species, Musankwa sanyatiensis, known from an incomplete hindlimb. Musankwa represents the fourth dinosaur genus to be named from Zimbabwe.
What we know
- Named by Barrett et al., 2024.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Musankwa — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.