Tietasaura derbyiana
"Tieta lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tietasaura 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)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Tietasaura (meaning “Tieta lizard”) is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Marfim Formation of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, T. derbyiana, known from a single incomplete femur. Tietasaura is notable for being the first ornithischian dinosaur ever named from Brazil.
What we know
- Named by Bandeira et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Tietasaura — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.