Leyesaurus
Name:
Leyesaurus.
Phonetic: Ley-e-sor-us.
Named By: C. Apaldetti, R. N. Martinez,
O. A. Alcober & D. Pol - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha.
Species: L. marayensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull 18 centimetres long. Total length estimated about 2.5 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Quebrada del Barro
Formation.
Time period: Usually credited as early Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Skull, mandible and partial
post cranial remains including vertebrae, pelvis, shoulder and a
rib.
Leyesaurus is a genus of small sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in South America around the early Jurassic. Predatory threats to Leyesaurus would have mostly come from theropod dinosaurs.
Further reading
- A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from
Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin),
Northwestern Argentina. - PLoS ONE 6(11):e26964:1-19. -
C. Apaldetti, R. N. Martinez, O. A. Alcober &
D. Pol - 2011.
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