Weewarrasaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Weewarrasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Australia · United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Weewarrasaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Griman Creek Formation near Lightning Ridge, in New South Wales, Australia. The type and only species is W. pobeni, known from the holotype, an isolated preserved in opal, as well as a secondary referred dentary. It is thought to have co-existed with multiple other ornithopods of different sizes and lineages.
What we know
- Named by Bell et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Australia and United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Weewarrasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.