Chilesaurus
Chilesaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinosaur. The type and only known species so far is Chilesaurus diegosuarezi. Chilesaurus lived about 145 million years ago (Mya) in the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Showing a combination of traits from theropods, ornithischians, and sauropodomorphs, this genus has far-reaching implications for the evolution of dinosaurs, such as whether the traditional saurischian-ornithischian split is superior or inferior to the proposed group Ornithoscelida.
| Chilesaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic ~ | |
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| Cast of the holotype skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Genus: | †Chilesaurus Novas et al. 2015 |
| Species: | †C. diegosuarezi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chilesaurus diegosuarezi Novas et al. 2015 | |
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