Coloradisaurus
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Coloradisaurus (meaning "Los Colorados lizard") is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period (Norian stage) in what is now La Rioja Province, Argentina. It is known from two specimens collected from the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin.
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Diagram showing known skull elements; shaded parts represent missing bones | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Family: | †Massospondylidae |
Genus: | †Coloradisaurus Galton, 1990[2][3] |
Type species | |
†Coloradisaurus brevis | |
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