Piatnitzkysaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Piatnitzkysauridae |
Genus: | †Piatnitzkysaurus Bonaparte, 1979 |
Species: | †P. floresi
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Binomial name | |
†Piatnitzkysaurus floresi Bonaparte, 1979
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Piatnitzkysaurus (/ˌpiːətnɪtskiːˈsɔːrəs/ pee-ət-NITS-kee-SOR-əs; meaning "Piatnitzky's lizard") is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 179 to 177 million years ago during the lower part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Argentina. Piatnitzkysaurus was a moderately large, lightly built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore that could grow up to 6.6 m (21.7 ft) long.