Thecodontosaurus Thecodontosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Thecodontosaurus 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Triassic (252–201 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Thecodontosaurus (“socket-tooth lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Carnian age). Its remains are known mostly from Triassic “fissure fillings” in southern England. Thecodontosaurus was a small bipedal animal, about 2 m long. It is one of the first dinosaurs to be discovered and is one of the oldest that ever existed. Many species have been named within the genus, but only the type species Thecodontosaurus antiquus is seen as valid today.
What we know
- Named by Riley & Stutchbury, 1836.
- Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.