Kwanasaurus
Field photograph to come
Kwanasaurus
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- Lived
- 227 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Silesauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Martz and Small 2019
Field notes
About Kwanasaurus
Kwanasaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 201 million years ago. It belongs to the family Silesauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Kwanasaurus, from Colorado. Its fossils come from the Chinle Formation. It was named by Martz and Small in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
210 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Silesauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. W. Martz and B. J. Small. 2019. Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of the Eagle Basin, northern Colorado: Dromomeron romeri (Lagerpetidae) and a new taxon, Kwanasaurus williamparkeri (Silesauridae). PeerJ 7:e7551:1-71