Tapuiasaurus
"Tapuia lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tapuiasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Tapuiasaurus (meaning “Tapuia lizard”) is a genus of titanosaur which lived during the Lower Cretaceous period (Aptian age) in what is now Minas Gerais, Brazil.
What we know
- Named by Zaher et al. 2011.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tapuiasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.