Oplosaurus armatus
"armed or weapon lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Oplosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130–125 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Oplosaurus (meaning “armed or weapon lizard” or “armoured lizard”; see below for discussion) was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian stage) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is known from a single tooth usually referred to the contemporaneous “wastebasket taxon” Pelorosaurus, although there is no solid evidence for this.
What we know
- Named by Gervais, 1852.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Oplosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.