Eodromaeus

Eodromaeus
Temporal range: Late Triassic (Carnian)
~231.4–229 Ma
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Restored skeletal mount in Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Genus: †Eodromaeus
Martinez et al., 2011
Species:
†E. murphi
Binomial name
†Eodromaeus murphi
Martinez et al., 2011

Eodromaeus (meaning "dawn runner") is an extinct genus of probable basal theropod dinosaurs from the Late Triassic of Argentina. Like many other of the earliest-known dinosaurs, it hails from the Carnian-age (~230 Ma) Ischigualasto Formation, within the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin of northwestern Argentina. Upon its discovery, it was argued to be one of the oldest true theropods, supplanting its contemporary Eoraptor, which was reinterpreted as a basal sauropodomorph.[1]

  1. ^ Martínez et al., 2011