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Silesauridae

Soumyasaurus

"enigma or riddle"

Generic small ornithischian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Soumyasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic small ornithischian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Soumyasaurus
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (220 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Silesauridae

Soumyasaurus is a small silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic (Norian) Cooper Canyon Formation of western Texas.

What we know

  • Named by Sarıgül, Agnolín & Chatterjee, 2018.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Soumyasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.