Dinosauria › Reptilia
Aratasaurus
Aratasaurus museunacionali Sayão et al. 2020
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · 113.2–110.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
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 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%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Aratasaurus sits in deep time
Aratasaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Aratasaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.