Ponerosteus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ponerosteus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ponerosteus is a dubious genus of extinct archosauromorph from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-aged) Korycanar Formation of the Czech Republic that was initially identified as a species of the dinosaur Iguanodon.
The type, and currently only, species is P. exogyrarum.
What we know
- Named by (Fritsch, 1878).
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ponerosteus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.