Ratchasimasaurus
"Nakhon Ratchasima lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ratchasimasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120–113 Mya)
- Place
- Thailand
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ratchasimasaurus (meaning “Nakhon Ratchasima lizard”) is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) Khok Kruat Formation of Nakhon Ratchasima province in northeastern Thailand. The type and only species is R. suranareae, named after Thao Suranari, a 19th-century war heroine. It was considered by one study to be a nomen dubium, diagnosed with characters widespread in Styracosterna.
What we know
- Named by Shibata, Jintasakul & Azuma, 2011.
- Fossils found in Thailand.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ratchasimasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.