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beaked plant-eater
Portellsaurus
Say it like this: “POR-tell-SOR-us”
Portellsaurus sosbaynati
Portellsaurus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Santos-Cubedo, A.; de Santisteban, C.; Poza, B.; Meseguer, S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6.2 m · 20 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Spain · Mirambell
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauroidea
The story in short
The genus Portellsaurus dates to 2021, the year A. Santos-Cubedo and colleagues described it. The name means “portell lizard.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from Spain, including the Mirambell Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Portellsaurus at a length near 6.2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauroidea, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Altirhinus
Altirhinus kurzanovi
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
Batyrosaurus
Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi
Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
Bolong
Bolong yixianensis
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago