Tengrisaurus Tengrisaurus
"Tengri lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tengrisaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.