Lewisuchus
Lewisuchus was a small, early dinosaur relative that lived around 236 million years ago. It walked on two legs and had a beak, which it used to eat plants. This reptile is one of the closest known relatives of true dinosaurs.13
Cando viviu?
Como era de grande?
Canto medía de longo?
Canto medía de alto?
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 14 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Lewisuchus comparado CONTIGO?
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Datos curiosos
Lewisuchus had a row of bony plates called osteoderms along its back, which may have helped protect it.1
Its full scientific name is Lewisuchus admixtus, and 'admixtus' means 'mixed', because its skeleton was found mixed with bones of other animals.1
Scientists once called it Pseudolagosuchus, but later realized those fossils came from the same type of animal.13
The first skeleton was discovered inside a hard rock nodule in Argentina during a 1964 to 1965 expedition.1
It was about 1 meter (3.3 feet) long, about the size of a large dog.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Lewisuchus
?Is Lewisuchus a dinosaur?
No, it is not a dinosaur. It is a silesaurid dinosauriform, one of the closest relatives of dinosaurs.1
?Where was Lewisuchus found?
In the Chañares Formation of Argentina.1
?How did Lewisuchus get its name?
It means 'Lewis's crocodile'. The name honors Arnold Lewis, who discovered the skeleton, and references the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek.1
Cazamitos
Mito: Some people think Lewisuchus was a true dinosaur.
Verdade: Scientists now place Lewisuchus in the group Silesauridae, which are close relatives of dinosaurs but not necessarily true dinosaurs themselves.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Lewisuchus
- Bautizado por
- Romer 19723
- Grupo
- Herbívoros con bico
- Familia / clado
- Silesauridae3
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia3
- Idade das rochas
- de 241 a 234 millóns de anos (Ladinian / Carnian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Chañares3
- Países
- Arxentina3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 4 na Paleobiology Database3
- Tamén coñecido como
- Pseudolagosuchus (nomes antigos que agora contan como o mesmo animal)3
- Descubrimento
- Alfred Romer named Lewisuchus in 1972, based on a partial skeleton found in the Chañares Formation of Argentina. The holotype specimen is stored at the Museo de La Plata and later moved to the National University of La Rioja.13
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists still debate whether Lewisuchus should be classified as a true dinosaur or as a close dinosaur relative.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Lewisuchus (en.wikipedia.org)
- New Specimen Sheds Light on the Anatomy and Taxonomy of the Early Late Triassic Dinosauriforms from the Chañares Formation, NW Argentina (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Lewisuchus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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