Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis
"Ulugh Beg"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ulughbegsaurus 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Uzbekistan
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ulughbegsaurus (meaning “Ulugh Beg’s lizard”) is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Bissekty Formation (Turonian age) and Khodzhakul Formation (Cenomanian age) of Uzbekistan. The genus contains a single species, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, known from multiple maxilla fragments.
What we know
- Named by Tanaka et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in Uzbekistan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ulughbegsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.