Laquintasaura

DV-0895

Lived: 201 to 200 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Early armored dinosaurs
Found in: Venezuela
Named by: Barrett et al. 2014

Field notes

About Laquintasaura

Laquintasaura was a plant-eating early armored dinosaur that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 200 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Laquintasaura, from Venezuela. Its fossils come from the La Quinta Formation. It was named by Barrett et al. in 2014.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

200 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Perijasaurussauropod

Close relatives

Other members of Thyreophora.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Barrett, R. J. Butler, and R. Mundil, T. M. Scheyer, R. B. Irmis, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2014. A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20141147:1-6