Vahiny
"traveller"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Vahiny 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
- Place
- Madagascar
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Vahiny (meaning “traveller” in Malagasy) is an extinct genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of the Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar. It contains a single species, Vahiny depereti.
What we know
- Named by Curry Rogers & Wilson, 2014.
- Fossils found in Madagascar.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Vahiny — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.