Tangvayosaurus Tangvayosaurus
"Tang Vay lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tangvayosaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
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- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (120–100 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Tangvayosaurus (meaning “Tang Vay lizard”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian ages) Grès supérieurs Formation of Savannakhet Province, Laos. It was a basal somphospondylan, measuring about 15 m long, and is known from the remains of two or three individuals.
What we know
- Named by Allain et al., 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.