In Depth
Aratasaurus is a genus of Coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the early Cretaceous. The holotype individual of Aratasaurus is estimated to have been about four years old at the time of death, and only a juvenile or at most a sub adult. Older adults would have likely been larger, though by how much no one knows.
Aratasaurus is considered to have been similar to the dinosaur Zuolong from Asia. Further reading
- The first theropod dinosaur (Coelurosauria, Theropoda) from the base of the Romualdo Formation (Albian), Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil. - Scientific Reports. 10 (1). - Juliana Manso Say�o, Ant�nio �lamo Feitosa Saraiva, Arthur Souza Brum, Renan Alfredo Machado Bantim, Rafael Cesar Lima Pedroso de Andrade, Xin Cheng, Flaviana Jorge de Lima, Helder de Paula Silva & Alexander W. A. Kellner - 2020.
