Full reference: F. E. Novas, L. Salgado, M. Suárez, F. L. Agnolín, M. D. Ezcurra, N. R. Chimento, R. Cruz, M. P. Isasi, A. O. Vargas and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Nature 522(7556):331-334
Belongs to Chilesaurus according to F. E. Novas et al. 2015
See also Dieudonné et al. 2020, Salgado et al. 2015 and Serrano-Martínez et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Servicio Nacional de Geologı´a y Minerı´a, Chile (SNGM)- 1935, a skeleton (nearly complete, articulated skeleton, approximately 1.6 m long). Its type locality is Aysén, which is in a Tithonian fluvial-deltaic sandstone in the Toqui Formation of Chile.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Aysén
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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