| Sacisaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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| Skeletal reconstruction of Sacisaurus agudoensis. Known elements are in white. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia (?) |
| Family: | †Silesauridae |
| Clade: | †Sulcimentisauria |
| Genus: | †Sacisaurus Ferigolo & Langer 2006 |
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Sacisaurus ("Saci lizard") is a silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic (Norian) Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil.[1] The scientific name, Sacisaurus agudoensis, refers to the city where the species was found, Agudo in the Rio Grande do Sul state, whereas Sacisaurus refers to Saci, a famous one-legged creature from Brazilian mythology, because among the dozens of fossil material unearthed, 35 right femora were collected whereas only 1 left femur was found.[2]
- ^ Ferigolo, J.; Langer, M.C. (2006). "A Late Triassic dinosauriform from south Brazil and the origin of the ornithischian predentary bone" (PDF). Historical Biology. 19 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1080/08912960600845767. S2CID 85819339. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-27.
- ^ Ferigolo, J. and Langer, M.C. (2006), A Late Triassic dinosauriform from south Brazil and the origin of the ornithischian predentary bone, Historical Biology: A Journal of Paleobiology, p. 1-11. (in English)