Pisanosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0197Ischigualasto Fm., Argentina

Pisanosaurus

DV-0197

Lived
234 to 227 million years ago, Late Triassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Early ornithischians
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Casamiquela 1967

Field notes

About Pisanosaurus

Pisanosaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Late Triassic, 234 to 227 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Pisanosaurus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Ischigualasto Formation. It was named by Casamiquela in 1967.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

230 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. M. Casamiquela. 1967. Un nuevo dinosaurio ornitisquio triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii; Ornithopoda) de la Formación Ischigualasto, Argentina [A new Triassic ornithischian dinosaur (Pisanosaurus mertii; Ornithopoda) from the Ischigualasto Formation, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 4(2):47-64