Silvisaurus Silvisaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Silvisaurus 4 m (13.1 ft) long
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- Length
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (104–93.5 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva “woodland” and Greek sauros “lizard”, is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous period. It is the only known dinosaur species named from terrestrial deposits in Kansas and was designated the official state land fossil in 2023.
What we know
- Named by Eaton, 1960.
- Body length estimated at about 4 m.