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Saltasauridae

Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra

"lizard"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Qunkasaura 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 Qunkasaura
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Spain
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Saltasauridae
Qunkasaura reconstruction by TotalDino
Reconstruction · TotalDino (CC-BY)

Qunkasaura is a genus of saltasauroid titanosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Lo Hueco site of the Villalba de la Sierra Formation of Spain. The type species is Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra.

What we know

  • Named by Mocho et al., 2024.
  • Fossils found in Spain.

What we guess

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