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pisanosaur

pisanosaur

9.9
An early small dinosaur that ate plants and lived in Argentina
  • noun
  • Specialized
: pisanosaurio
  • Fossils of the pisanosaur provide insights into the early evolution of dinosaurs.

Examples

  • A team of paleontologists unearthed a nearly complete pisanosaur skeleton in Argentina.

  • The pisanosaur is one of the oldest known dinosaurs discovered in South America.

  • The pisanosaur lived during the Late Jurassic period.

  • Many fossils of pisanosaurs have been discovered in Argentina.

  • A team of paleontologists unearthed a nearly complete pisanosaur skeleton in Argentina.

  • Fossils of the pisanosaur provide insights into the early evolution of dinosaurs.

  • The pisanosaur is one of the oldest known dinosaurs discovered in South America.

Synonyms

Pisanosaurus
vspisanosaur
  • Specialized
9.9

An early plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Late Triassic Argentina

is the same but stresses that it is one of the earliest known ornithischians

Surface Forms

pisanosaur singular
pisanosaurs plural

Etymology

Pisanosaur combines the name Pisano and the Greek ending -saur, which means 'lizard' and is the same part you see in dinosaur. So pisanosaur literally means 'Pisano lizard', a fitting name for an early dinosaur found in Argentina.