Aratasaurus
Name:
Aratasaurus
(born of fire lizard).
Phonetic: Ah-rat-ah-sor-us.
Named By: Juliana Manso Say�o, Ant�nio �lamo
Feitosa Saraiva, Arthur Souza Brum, Renan Alfredo Machado Bantim,
Rafael Cesar Lima Pedroso de Andrade, Xin Cheng, Flaviana Jorge de
Lima, Helder de Paula Silva & Alexander W. A. Kellner
- 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Coelurosauria.
Species: A. museunacionali
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Holotype individual roughly estimated to have
been about 3 meters long, but this wa a juvenile. Fully grown
adults likely larger.
Known locations: Brazil - Romualdo Formation.
Time period: Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Aratasaurus
is a genus of Coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in South
America during the early Cretaceous. The holotype individual of
Aratasaurus is estimated to have been about four
years old at the time
of death, and only a juvenile or at most a sub adult. Older adults
would have likely been larger, though by how much no one knows.
Aratasaurus
is considered to have been similar to the dinosaur Zuolong
from Asia.
Further reading
- The first theropod dinosaur (Coelurosauria, Theropoda) from
the base of the Romualdo Formation (Albian), Araripe Basin,
Northeast Brazil. - Scientific Reports. 10 (1). -
Juliana Manso Say�o, Ant�nio �lamo Feitosa Saraiva, Arthur Souza
Brum, Renan Alfredo Machado Bantim, Rafael Cesar Lima Pedroso de
Andrade, Xin Cheng, Flaviana Jorge de Lima, Helder de Paula
Silva & Alexander W. A. Kellner - 2020.
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