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early dinosaur · Doubtful name
Lametasaurus
Say it like this: “luh-MAY-tuh-SOR-us”
Lametasaurus indicus
Lametasaurus had a diet that is still unclear and moved in a way the fossils do not settle. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in India.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1924 · Matley, C. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- India · Lameta
- Food and walking
- Not recorded · Not recorded
- Kind
- early dinosaur · Early dinosaur
- Family branch
- Dinosauria
The story in short
In 1924, C. A. Matley published the name Lametasaurus. The name means “lameta lizard.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from India, including the Lameta Formation.
The fossils of Lametasaurus 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 Dinosauria, among the earliest dinosaurs.