Pisanosaurus
Field photograph to come
Pisanosaurus
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- 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
230 million years ago
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