Chilesaurus
Field photograph to come
Chilesaurus
DV-0915 · type species Chilesaurus diegosuarezi
- Lived
- 149 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians
- Found in
- Chile
- Named by
- Novas et al. 2015
Field notes
About Chilesaurus
Chilesaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 149 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Chilesaurus, from Chile. Its fossils come from the Toqui Formation. It was named by Novas et al. in 2015.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Ornithischia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. E. Novas, L. Salgado, and M. Suárez, F. L. Agnolín, M. D. Ezcurra, N. R. Chimento, R. de la Cruz, M. P. Isasi, A. O. Vargas, D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Nature 522(7556):331-334