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beaked plant-eater
Emiliasaura
Say it like this: “eh-MEE-lee-uh-SOH-ruh”
Emiliasaura alessandrii
Emiliasaura ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2024 · Coria, R. A.; Cerda, I. A.; Escaso, F.; Baiano, M. A.; Bellardini, F.; Braun, A.; Coria, L. M.; Gutierrez, J. M.; Pino, D.; Windholz, G. J.; Currie, P. J.; Ortega, F.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Argentina · Mulichinco
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Iguanodontia
The story in short
The genus Emiliasaura dates to 2024, the year R. A. Coria and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian), roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Mulichinco Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Emiliasaura are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Iguanodontia, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.