Portellsaurus sosbaynati
"Portell Lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Portellsaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130–129 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Portellsaurus (meaning “Portell Lizard”) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Margas de Mirambell Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Portellsaurus sosbaynati, known from a partial right dentary.
What we know
- Named by Santos-Cubedo et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in Spain.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Portellsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.