Nebulasaurus taito
"misty cloud"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nebulasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174.1–168.3 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Nebulasaurus is an extinct genus of basal eusauropod dinosaur known from the early Middle Jurassic Zhanghe Formation (Aalenian or Bajocian stage) of Yunnan Province, China. It is known only from the holotype braincase LDRC-v.d.1. A phylogenetic analysis found Nebulasaurus to be a sister taxon to Spinophorosaurus from the Middle Jurassic of Africa. This discovery is significant paleontologically because it represents a clade of basal eusauropods previously unknown from Asia.
What we know
- Named by Xing et al., 2015.
- Fossils found in Africa and Asia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Nebulasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.