Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum

"Tübingen lizard"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tuebingosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (222–209 Mya)
Place
Germany
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Tuebingosaurus (meaning “Tübingen lizard”) is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic Trossingen Formation of Germany. The genus contains a single species, Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum, originally identified as a specimen of Plateosaurus.

What we know

  • Named by Regalado Fernández & Werneburg, 2022.
  • Fossils found in Germany.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Tuebingosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.