Piatnitzkysaurus floresi piːuhtnihtskiː-SƆːRUHS
"Piatnitzky"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Piatnitzkysaurus 4.3 m (14.1 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 4.3 m (14.1 ft)
- Period
- Jurassic (201–145 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Piatnitzkysauridae
Piatnitzkysaurus ( ; meaning “Piatnitzky’s lizard”) is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 179 to 177 million years ago during the lower part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Argentina. Piatnitzkysaurus was a moderately large, lightly built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore that could grow over 4 m long.
What we know
- Named by Bonaparte, 1979.
- Body length estimated at about 4.3 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.