Zupaysaurus zoopay-SORRUHS
"devil"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Zupaysaurus 4 m (13.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (221–206 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina · Colorado, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Zupaysaurus (; “ZOO-pay-SAWR-us”) is an extinct genus of early theropod dinosaur living during the Norian stage of the Late Triassic in what is now Argentina. Fossils of the dinosaur were found in the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina. Although a full skeleton has not yet been discovered, Zupaysaurus can be considered a bipedal predator, up to 4 m long. It may have had two parallel crests running the length of its snout.
What we know
- Named by Arcucci & Coria 2003.
- Body length estimated at about 4 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina and Colorado, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Zupaysaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.