Pendraig milnerae Pendraig
"chief dragon"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pendraig 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (215–201 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Pendraig (meaning “chief dragon” in Middle Welsh) is a genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur from South Wales. It contains one species, Pendraig milnerae, named after Angela Milner. The specimen was discovered in the Pant-y-Ffynnon quarry. In life it would have measured 1 m in length.
What we know
- Named by Spiekman et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.