Outline: a typical ornithopod
Emiliasaura
"Emilia's lizard"
Type species Emiliasaura alessandrii
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria et al. 2024
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Emiliasaura
What it was like
Emiliasaura was a small, two-legged plant eater, known from three partial skeletons. It was an early iguanodont, first described as a relative of Rhabdodon and Zalmoxes.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Mulichinco Formation, where it shared the land with the hunter Lajasvenator and the long-necked Pilmatueia.
How it was found
Coria and colleagues named Emiliasaura in 2024.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rhabdodontomorpha
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Coria, I. Cerda, and F. Escaso, M. Baiano, F. Bellardini, A. Braun, L. Coria, J. Gutierrez, D. Pino, G. Windholz, P. Currie, F. Ortega. 2024. First Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from Patagonia. Cretaceous Research