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 reconstruction by Connor Ashbridge
Reconstruction · Connor Ashbridge (CC-BY)

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.