Pantydraco
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pantydraco 3 m (9.8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (209–201 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pantydraco (where “panty-” is short for Pant-y-ffynnon, signifying hollow of the spring/well in Welsh, referring to the quarry at Bonvilston in South Wales where it was found) is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom (Wales). It is based on a partial juvenile skeleton once thought to belong to Thecodontosaurus. Only one valid species of Pantydraco is recognised: P. caducus.
What we know
- Named by (Yates, 2003) Galton et al., 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 3 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pantydraco — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.