Ptychotherates

DV-1314 · type species Ptychotherates bucculentus

Lived: 206 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early dinosaurs
Found in: United States
Named by: Srivastava and Nesbitt 2026

Field notes

About Ptychotherates

Ptychotherates was an early dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic, 206 to 201 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ptychotherates, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Chinle Formation. It was named by Srivastava and Nesbitt in 2026.

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.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Srivastava and S. J. Nesbitt. 2026. A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic. Papers in Palaeontology 12(2):e70069:1-35