Rapetosaurus ruh-paytoo-SƆːRUHS
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rapetosaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
as long as 9 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Madagascar
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Rapetosaurus ( ) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Only one species, Rapetosaurus krausei, has been identified. Like other sauropods, Rapetosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore. It is calculated to have reached lengths of 15 m in adulthood.
What we know
- Named by Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in Madagascar.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Rapetosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.