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Saturnaliidae

Pampadromaeus barberenai

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pampadromaeus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Pampadromaeus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (233.23 Mya)
Place
Brazil
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Saturnaliidae

Pampadromaeus is an extinct genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs known from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.

What we know

  • Named by Cabreira et al. 2011.
  • Fossils found in Brazil.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Pampadromaeus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.