Zupaysaurus
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Zupaysaurus at rest |
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| Upper Triassic ( Norium ) | ||||||||||||
| 228 to 208.5 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Arcucci et al. Coria , 2003 | ||||||||||||
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Zupaysaurus ("devil lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of South America.
Arcucci and Coria first described fossils of Zupaysaurus from the Argentine province of La Rioja in 2003 . It is counted among the Coelophysoidea , fossil evidence comes from the Upper Triassic ( Norium ).
Like its cousin Dilophosaurus from the Lower Jurassic , it also had two thin, crescent-shaped bone ridges on its skull. However, its arms were shorter in proportion to its length of 4 meters than that of Dilophosaurus . Its weight is uncertain. The estimates are between 50 and 200 kilograms. Its height was almost 1.5 meters. The part of the name “Zupay” comes from Quechua , an indigenous language of the Andean region of South America.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ezcurra & Novas (2007), pp. 35-72 doi : 10.1671 / 0272-4634 (2007) 27 [32: CAOMCT] 2.0.CO; 2
- ↑ Hendrickx, C., & Mateus, O. (2014). Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and dentition-based phylogeny as a contribution for the identification of isolated theropod teeth. Zootaxa, 3759. [1]
- ^ Gregory S. Paul: The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs , 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-13720-9 , p. 75 online