
Gojirasaurus is a genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur named after the giant monster movie character Godzilla. It lived in the Late Triassic Period, containing a single known species, Gojirasaurus quayi.
Gojirasaurus is a genus of coelophysoid theropod dinosaur named after the giant monster movie character Godzilla. It lived in the Late Triassic Period, containing a single known species, Gojirasaurus quayi.
==Discovery== Gojirasaurus quayi was described and named by Kenneth Carpenter in 1997 based on a partial skeleton, the holotype specimen UCM 47221, from Quay County, New Mexico. The holotype is an assortment of various postcranial bones, including a right scapula, right pubis, left tibia, left metatarsal V, four vertebral centra, a neural arch, and fragments of ribs and gastralia. In addition, a single large serrated tooth is associated with the postcranial material. The holotype is housed in the collections of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, in Boulder, Colorado.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).