Vespersaurus

Vespersaurus
Holotype foot bones
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Noasauridae
Subfamily: †Noasaurinae
Genus: †Vespersaurus
Langer et al., 2019
Type species
Vespersaurus paranaensis
Langer et al., 2019

Vespersaurus (meaning "western lizard") is a genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Rio Paraná Formation in the Paraná Basin, Brazil. The type and only species is V. paranaensis, which would have lived in the giant prehistoric Botucatu Desert.[5]

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