Buriolestes
Name:
Buriolestes
(Buriol’s robber).
Phonetic: Bur-e-ol-es-teez.
Named By: S. F. Cabreira, A. W. A.
Kellner, S. Dias-da-Silva, L. R. Silva, M. Bronzati,
J. C. A. Marsola, R. T. M�ller, J. S. Bittencourt,
B. J. Batista, T. Raugust, R. Carrilho, A. Brodt
& M. C. Langer - 2016.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha.
Species: B. schultzi (type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Holotype roughly about 1.6-1.7 meters long.
Known locations: Brazil - Santa Maria Formation.
Time period: Carnian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and lower jaw,
as well as partial post cranial skeleton including fore and hind
limbs, shoulder, pelvis, and most of the tail. Fossil remains
of more than one individual now known.
The
sauropodomorph
dinosaurs are the missing links between earlier theropod
dinosaurs, and later sauropod descendants. As a group they show a
transition from a predatory carnivorous lifestyle, to an herbivorous
one. Buriolestes is a sauropodomoprh dinosaur,
yet the teeth and
jaw structure are much more like those seen in meat eating theropod
dinosaurs.
Buriolestes
was named alongside the dinosauromorph Ixalerpeton.
Further reading
- A Unique Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage Reveals Dinosaur
Ancestral Anatomy and Diet. - Current Biology
26(22):3090-3095. - S. F. Cabreira, A. W. A.
Kellner, S. Dias-da-Silva, L. R. Silva, M. Bronzati,
J. C. A. Marsola, R. T. M�ller, J. S. Bittencourt,
B. J. Batista, T. Raugust, R. Carrilho, A. Brodt
& M. C. Langer - 2016.
- Early evolution of sauropodomorphs: anatomy and phylogenetic
relationships of a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur from the Upper
Triassic of southern Brazil. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society. 184 (4): 1187–124. - Rodrigo T. M�ller, Max
C. Langer, Mario Bronzati, Cristian P. Pacheco, S�rgio F.
Cabreira & S�rgio Dias-Da-Silva - 2018.
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