Osmakasaurus
"canyon lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Osmakasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (137 Mya)
- Place
- United States · South Dakota, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Osmakasaurus (meaning “canyon lizard”, ósmaka meaning “canyon” in the Lakota language) is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which lived in the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian age) Chilson Member of the Lakota Formation in what is now Buffalo Gap of South Dakota, United States. This genus was named by Andrew T. McDonald in 2011 and the type species is O. depressus.
What we know
- Named by (Gilmore, 1909).
- Fossils found in United States and South Dakota, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Osmakasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.