Lutungutali

Say it: loo-toon-goo-TAH-lee

Name means: “high hip in the Bemba language”1

Ate: PlantsBeaked plant-eatersMiddle Triassic to Late Triassic

Lutungutali was an early relative of dinosaurs that lived about 247 million years ago. It walked on four legs and ate plants, using its beak to nibble on ferns and other greenery.4 1

Lived

247 to 227 million years ago4

Middle Triassic to Late Triassic

Fossils found in

Zambia (Eastern)2

Food

Plants4

Length

1.4 m3

largest known specimen

Weight

8.5 kg3

largest known specimen

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 2 house cats

as long as 3 house cats nose to tailas long as 8 bananas end to endas heavy as 71 bananas

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Lutungutali is known from parts of its pelvis and tail vertebrae, found in the Ntawere Formation of Zambia.1

Its name means 'high hip' because the blade of its ilium (hip bone) is taller than the part that forms the hip socket.1

Lutungutali and Asilisaurus from Tanzania are the two oldest known members of Avemetatarsalia, the line of archosaurs that includes birds.1

It lived during the Middle Triassic, about 247 to 227 million years ago, when Zambia was part of the supercontinent Pangaea.2

Scientists think Lutungutali was a ground-dwelling herbivore that moved actively on land.4

The only known fossil of Lutungutali is a partial skeleton including hip bones and tail vertebrae, collected in 2009.1

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Scientific name: Lutungutali
Named by: Peecook et al. 20134
Group: Beaked plant-eaters
Family / clade: Silesauridae4
Classification: Ornithischia4
Age of the rocks: 247 to 227 million years ()4
Rock formations: Ntawere4
Countries: Zambia4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Lutungutali was named in 2013 by Peecook and colleagues, based on a fossil found in the upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia in 2009.1 4
Still debated: Scientists are not sure whether Lutungutali was a true dinosaur or a very close relative, because its skeleton is incomplete.1

Where the facts come from

Lutungutali (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Lutungutali sitwensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Lutungutali in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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