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Sign in to savePisanosaurus ( ) is an extinct genus of early dinosauriform, likely an ornithischian or silesaurid, from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It was a small, lightly built, ground-dwelling herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated long. Only one species, the type, Pisanosaurus mertii, is known, based on a single partial skeleton discovered in the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina. This part of the formation has been dated to the late Carnian, approximately 229 million years ago.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Ornithischia
- Image
- Pisanosaurus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pisanosaurus
- taxon name
- Pisanosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- end time
- 216500000-
- start time
- 228000000-
- time period
- Late Triassic
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