Huayracursor

DV-1277 · type species Huayracursor jaguensis

Lived: 237 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Hechenleitner et al. 2025

Field notes

About Huayracursor

Huayracursor was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 237 to 206 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Huayracursor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Santo Domingo Formation. It was named by Hechenleitner et al. in 2025.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

220 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodomorpha.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. M. Hechenleitner, A. G. Martinelli, and S. Rocher, L. E. Fiorelli, M. Juarez, J. R. A. Taborda, J. B. Desojo. 2025. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature 648(8094):634–639