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plated dinosaur
Isaberrysaura
Say it like this: “ih-zah-BEH-ree-SOH-ruh”
Isaberrysaura mollensis
Isaberrysaura ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) · roughly 170.9 to 168.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2017 · Salgado, L.; Canudo, J. I.; Garrido, A. C.; Moreno-Azanza, M.; Martínez, L. C. A.; Coria, R. A.; Gasca, J. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 5–6 m · 16–20 ft
- Weight
- 1 tonnes
- Found in
- Argentina · Los Molles
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- plated dinosaur · Stegosaur
- Family branch
- Stegosauria
The story in short
In 2017, L. Salgado and colleagues published the name Isaberrysaura. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian), roughly 170.9 to 168.2 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Los Molles Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Isaberrysaura at a length near 5–6 m and a body mass around 1 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Stegosauria, among the plated dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Amargastegos
Amargastegos brevicollus
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
Baiyinosaurus
Baiyinosaurus baojiensis
Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) · roughly 168.2 to 165.3 million years ago
Bashanosaurus
Bashanosaurus primitivus
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago