Yamanasaurus Yamanasaurus
"Yamana lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yamanasaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Saltasauridae
Yamanasaurus (meaning “Yamana lizard”) is an extinct genus of saltasaurine titanosaurian dinosaur from the Río Playas Formation of Ecuador, which dates to the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the late Cretaceous period (approximately 75-70 million years ago). The type and only species is Yamanasaurus lojaensis, representing the first non-avian dinosaur described from Ecuador. The holotype, consisting of fragments of a humerus, ulna, tibia, two sacral vertebrae and a single caudal, was discovered in 2017.
What we know
- Named by Apesteguía et al., 2020.