Dinosauria›Reptilia
Aratasaurus Aratasaurus museunacionali Sayão et al. 2020
/ˌæɹɐɾɐsˈɔːɹəs/
estimated
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · 113.2–110.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
solitary
Where It Was Found
Country
Brazil
Region
Ceará
Formation
Romualdo
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Aratasaurus museunacionali is a theropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 113.2–110.1 million years ago. It was a carnivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and solitary. Fossils have been recovered from Ceará, Brazil. It was named by Sayão et al. 2020. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Aratasaurus museunacionali sits in deep time
Aratasaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Aratasaurus museunacionali's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.