Ahvaytum

DV-1264 · type species Ahvaytum bahndooiveche

Lived: 237 to 227 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: United States
Named by: Lovelace et al. 2025

Field notes

About Ahvaytum

Ahvaytum was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 237 to 227 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ahvaytum, from Wyoming. Its fossils come from the Popo Agie Formation. It was named by Lovelace et al. in 2025.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

230 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodomorpha.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: D. M. Lovelace, A. M. Kufner, and A. J. Fitch, K. Curry Rogers, M. Schmitz, D. M. Schwartz, A. LeClair-Diaz, L. StClair, J. Mann, R. Teran. 2025. Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203:zlae153