Sasayamagnomus saegusai
"gnome from Sasayama"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sasayamagnomus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (112.1 Mya)
- Place
- Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Sasayamagnomus (meaning “gnome from Sasayama”) is an extinct genus of neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The genus contains a single species, Sasayamagnomus saegusai. The holotype individual is estimated to reach 80 cm long, although this specimen is not fully grown.
What we know
- Named by Tanaka et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Japan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sasayamagnomus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.