| Amanasaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic (Carnian), ~
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia (?) |
| Family: | †Silesauridae |
| Genus: | †Amanasaurus Müller & Garcia, 2023 |
| Species: | †A. nesbitti
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| †Amanasaurus nesbitti Müller & Garcia, 2023
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Amanasaurus (meaning "rain lizard") is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The genus contains a single species, A. nesbitti, known from two partial femora.[1]
- ^ Müller, R. T.; Garcia, M. S. (2023). "A new silesaurid from Carnian beds of Brazil fills a gap in the radiation of avian line archosaurs". Scientific Reports. 13. 4981. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32057-x. PMC 10090097.