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Dinosaur: Noasaurus leali
| Length*: | 3 m | 9.8 ft |
| Weight*: | 38 kg | 84 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Years: 72.1–66 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Bonaparte & Powell
Year: 1980
Distribution
Area: South America
Country: Argentina
Region: Salta
Formation: Lecho
Locations
Sources
Material: Maxilla, quadrate, cervical neural arch, ribs, dorsal centrum, manual phalanx III-?, manual ungual ?II, metatarsal II. Referred cervical vertebra and manual ungual ?II.
References: Bonaparte and Powell, (1980). A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves).
