Vespersaurus
Vespersaurus (meaning "western lizard") is a genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Rio Paraná Formation in the Paraná Basin, Brazil. The type and only species is V. paranaensis, which would have lived in the giant prehistoric Botucatu Desert.
| Vespersaurus | |
|---|---|
| Holotype foot bones | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Noasauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Noasaurinae |
| Genus: | †Vespersaurus Langer et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Vespersaurus paranaensis Langer et al., 2019 | |
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