Caseosaurus
Caseosaurus (/ˌkeɪzioʊˈsɔːrəs/ KAY-zee-oh-SOR-əs) is a genus of saurischian dinosaur that lived approximately 221.5 to 212 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now Texas, in North America. It was a small, lightly-built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore, and could grow up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long.
| Caseosaurus Temporal range: Norian, | |
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| Holotype ilium in lateral and medial view | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Genus: | †Caseosaurus Hunt et al., 1998 |
| Type species | |
| †Caseosaurus crosbyensis Hunt et al., 1998 | |
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