Laquintasaura
Laquintasaura was a tiny, speedy dinosaur that lived near the equator in what is now Venezuela. It was one of the earliest armoured dinosaurs, but it didn't have big plates yet,just a small, light body. Scientists found many of its bones piled together, which might mean it lived in a herd!1
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estimación
tan longo coma 2 gatos domésticos do fociño á cola🍌tan longo coma 6 plátanos postos un tras outro🪑tan pequeno que podería pasar por debaixo dunha cadeira🏃podería correr 100 metros en 19 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Laquintasaura comparado CONTIGO?
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Datos curiosos
Laquintasaura lived just after the end-Triassic mass extinction, about 201 million years ago, making it one of the earliest Jurassic dinosaurs.1
It is the first named dinosaur from northern South America, and it lived near the ancient equator.1
Scientists found at least four individuals in a single bonebed, which is the earliest evidence of ornithischian dinosaurs possibly living in groups.1
The largest thigh bone (femur) of Laquintasaura is only 90 mm long, showing it was a very small dinosaur.1
Its cheek teeth have a unique shape like an isosceles triangle, with coarse bumps (denticles) along the edges.1
Laquintasaura is a basal ornithischian, meaning it is an early relative of later armoured dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus.4

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Laquintasaura
?What did Laquintasaura eat?
It was mostly a plant-eater, but its sharp, triangular teeth suggest it may have also eaten insects or other small prey, making it an omnivore.23
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Laquintasaura
- Bautizado por
- Barrett et al. 20144
- Grupo
- Dinos acoirazados
- Familia / clado
- Thyreophora4
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Thyreophora4
- Idade das rochas
- de 201 a 200 millóns de anos (Hettangian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- La Quinta4
- Países
- Venezuela4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Laquintasaura was named in 2014 by Paul Barrett and colleagues from a bonebed in the La Quinta Formation of Venezuela. The fossils were found in a road-cut between the towns of La Grita and Seboruco.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure if Laquintasaura lived in herds or if the many bones found together were just washed into the same spot by water.1
De onde veñen os datos
- A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification (royalsocietypublishing.org)
- Laquintasaura (en.wikipedia.org)
- First Venezuelan dinosaur was a social animal (nhm.ac.uk)
- Laquintasaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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