Tengrisaurus
"Tengri lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tengrisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Tengrisaurus (meaning “Tengri lizard”) is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) Murtoi Formation of Russia. The genus was described in 2017 by Averianov & Skutschas, containing a single species, Tengrisaurus starkovi, known from several isolated vertebrae. Despite being among the oldest named definitive titanosaurs, it is an anatomically derived member of the clade Colossosauria.
What we know
- Named by Averianov & Skutschas, 2017.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tengrisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.