Pronounced - EE-oh-RAP-tor Named By - Paul Sereno, Forster, Rogers and Monetta When Named - 1993 |
DIET: |
Carnivore (meat-eater) |
SIZE: |
Length - 3 ft (1 m) long Height - 1 ft (30 cm) tall at the hips Weight - ? |
WHEN IT LIVED: |
Late Triassic period, about 228 million years ago |
WHERE IT LIVED: |
Fossils have been found in the Ischigualasto Formation, Valley of the Moon, Ischigualsto-Villa Union Basin,
in northwestern Argentina, South America. |
FOSSILS: |
Several almost complete skeletons have been found. |
CLASSIFICATION: |
- Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
- Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)
- Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs
- Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores
- Genus Eoraptor
- Species E. lunensis (type species named by Sereno, Forster, Rogers and Monetta, 1993)
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INTERESTING FACTS: |
Eoraptor is one of the earliest known dinosaurs. Recently, even older dinosaurs have been found in Madagascar. Eoraptor was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. It had light, hollow bones, a long head with
dozens of small, sharp teeth, and five fingers on its grasping hands (two of the fingers on each hand were very small). |
LINKS: |
A detailed page on Eoraptor.
A coloring/information printout on Eoraptor. |
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