Pisanosaurus pI-san@'sɔːr@s
"lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pisanosaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (229 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Pisanosaurus ( ) is an extinct genus of early dinosauriform, likely an ornithischian or silesaurid, from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It was a small, lightly built, ground-dwelling herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated 1 m long. Only one species, the type, Pisanosaurus mertii, is known, based on a single partial skeleton discovered in the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina. This part of the formation has been dated to the late Carnian, approximately 229 million years ago.
What we know
- Named by Casamiquela, 1967.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.