Sanjuansaurus
Sanjuansaurus was an early meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 231 million years ago in what is now Argentina. It was a fast hunter with sharp claws and teeth, and it was one of the first dinosaurs to appear on Earth.21
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Sanjuansaurus had a short pubis bone that was only 63% of the length of its thigh bone, which is a unique feature among its relatives.2
It lived in a warm, wet floodplain with forests of ferns and giant conifers, alongside other early dinosaurs like Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor.1
The only known fossil of Sanjuansaurus was found in an area of just one square meter, suggesting all the bones came from a single animal.2
Sanjuansaurus was about the same size as a medium-sized Herrerasaurus, and slightly larger than Staurikosaurus.2
The name Sanjuansaurus honors San Juan Province in Argentina, where the fossil was discovered.1
Scientists think Sanjuansaurus was a fast runner because its leg bones were long and slender, built for speed.2

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Sanjuansaurus
?How big was Sanjuansaurus?
About 3 metres (10 feet) long. It was about the size of a medium Herrerasaurus, with a thigh bone 395 mm (15.6 in) long.31
?What did Sanjuansaurus eat?
It was a carnivore, meaning it ate meat. It had sharp claws and teeth to hunt other animals.31
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Sanjuansaurus
- Bautizado por
- Alcober and Martínez 20104
- Grupo
- Primeiros dinosauros
- Familia / clado
- Herrerasauridae4
- Clasificación
- Herrerasauridae4
- Idade das rochas
- de 237 a 227 millóns de anos (Carnian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Ischigualasto4
- Países
- Arxentina4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Sanjuansaurus was named in 2010 by paleontologists Oscar Alcober and Ricardo Martínez, based on a partial skeleton found in 1994 in the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina.24
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are still debating whether herrerasaurids like Sanjuansaurus were early theropods or a separate group of dinosaurs that lived before theropods evolved.2
De onde veñen os datos
- Sanjuansaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new herrerasaurid (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of northwestern Argentina (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- PaleoCodex :: Sanjuansaurus (paleocodex.com)
- Sanjuansaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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