Vitosaura colozacani Vitosaura
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Vitosaura 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Vitosaura is an extinct genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous Los Llanos Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Vitosaura colozacani, known from a partial skeleton. Alongside Guemesia and the noasaurid Noasaurus, Vitosaura is one of the only Argentinian ceratosaurians found outside of Patagonia.
What we know
- Named by Jiménez Velandia et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in Argentina.