Overosaurus
"Overo lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Overosaurus 10 m (33 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (86.3–83.6 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Overosaurus (meaning “Overo lizard”, after the Cerro Overo locality) is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaurs, containing only a single species, Overosaurus paradasorum. This species lived approximately 86 to 84 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Patagonia (in southern Argentina). Overosaurus paradasorum was relatively small compared to other sauropods from Patagonia, like the saltasaurids and other aeolosaurines, estimated as approximately 10 m. It was a ground-dwelling herbivore.
What we know
- Named by Coria et al., 2013.
- Body length estimated at about 10 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Overosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.