Pulanesaura eocollum
"lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pulanesaura 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (200 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · South Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pulanesaura is an extinct genus of basal sauropodiform known from the Early Jurassic (late Hettangian to Sinemurian) Upper Elliot Formation of the Free State, South Africa. It contains a single species, Pulanesaura eocollum, known from partial remains of at least two subadult to adult individuals.
What we know
- Named by McPhee et al., 2015.
- Fossils found in Africa and South Africa.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pulanesaura — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.