Narindasaurus thevenini
"Narinda Bay lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Narindasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (168–165 Mya)
- Place
- Madagascar
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Narindasaurus (meaning “Narinda Bay lizard”) is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Isalo III Formation of Madagascar. The type and only species is Narindasaurus thevenini. The only known specimen of the genus was first described in 1907, but it was not formally named as a distinct species until 2020.
What we know
- Named by Royo-Torres et al., 2020.
- Fossils found in Madagascar.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Narindasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.