Rapetosaurus ruh-paytoo-SƆːRUHS
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rapetosaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
9 people holding hands
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Madagascar
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.