Huayracursor jaguensis
"wind runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huayracursor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (237–201 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Huayracursor (“wind runner”) is an extinct genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs known from the Late Triassic (Carnian age) Santo Domingo Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Huayracursor jaguensis, known from a partial articulated skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Hechenleitner et al., 2025.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Huayracursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.