Mierasaurus
Name:
Mierasaurus.
Phonetic: My-rah-sor-us.
Named By: R. Royo-Torres, P. Upchurch, J.
I. Kirkland, D. D. DeBlieux, J. R. Foster, A. Cobos
& L. Alcalá - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Turiasauria.
Species: M. bobyoungi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull about 68 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, Utah - Cedar Mountain
Formation.
Time period: Berriasian/Valanginian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial skeleton.
Mierasaurus
is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod
dinosaur that lived in Western
North America during the early Cretaceous. Mierasaurus
along with the
genus Moabosaurus
represent at the time of writing some of the last
known Turiasaurian sauropod dinosaurs to exist.
Further reading
- Descendants of the Jurassic turiasaurs from Iberia found refuge in
the Early Cretaceous of western USA. - Scientific Reports
7:14311:1-12. - R. Royo-Torres, P. Upchurch, J. I.
Kirkland, D. D. DeBlieux, J. R. Foster, A. Cobos
& L. Alcalá - 2017.
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