Vespersaurus paranaensis Vespersaurus
"western lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Vespersaurus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
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- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Brazil
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Noasauridae
Vespersaurus (meaning “western lizard”) is a genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Rio Paraná Formation in the Paraná Basin, Brazil. The type and only species is V. paranaensis, which would have lived in the giant prehistoric Botucatu Desert.
What we know
- Named by Langer et al., 2019.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Brazil.