Aratasaurus
Field photograph to come
Aratasaurus
DV-1093
- Lived
- 113 to 110 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Sayão et al. 2020
Field notes
About Aratasaurus
Aratasaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 110 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Aratasaurus, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Romualdo Formation. It was named by Sayão et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. M. Sayão, A. A. F. Saraiva, and A. S. Brum, R. A. M. Bantim, R. C. L. Pedroso de Andrade, X. Cheng, F. Jorge de Lima, H. de Paula Silva, A. W. A. Kellner. 2020. The first theropod dinosaur (Coelurosauria, Theropoda) from the base of the Romualdo Formation (Albian), Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil. Scientific Reports 10(10892)