Chilesaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chilesaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinosaur. The type and only known species so far is Chilesaurus diegosuarezi.[1] Chilesaurus lived between 148-147 million years ago (Mya) in the Late Jurassic period of Chile.[2] Showing a combination of traits from theropods, ornithischians, and sauropodomorphs, this genus has far-reaching implications for the evolution of dinosaurs, such as whether the traditional saurischian-ornithischian split is superior or inferior to the proposed group Ornithoscelida.[3]
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Chilesaurus | |
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Cast of the holotype skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Genus: | †Chilesaurus Novas et al. 2015 |
Species: | †C. diegosuarezi |
Binomial name | |
†Chilesaurus diegosuarezi Novas et al. 2015 | |
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