Genus
Valid Extinct

Piatnitzkysaurus

Bonaparte 1979
Etymology Reptile de Piatnitzky

Piatnitzkysaurus is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 179 to 177 million years ago during the lower part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Argentina. Piatnitzkysaurus was a moderately large, lightly built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore that could grow over 4 m (13.1 ft) long.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Piatnitzkysaurus
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Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Megalosauroidea Superfamily
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Piatnitzkysauridae Family
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Piatnitzkysaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Cañadón Asfalto
1
Temporal distribution
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Piatnitzkysaurus floresi 183 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J. F. Bonaparte. 1979. Dinosaurs: a Jurassic assemblage from Patagonia. Science 205:1377-1378 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. F. Bonaparte. 1979. Dinosaurs: a Jurassic assemblage from Patagonia. Science 205:1377-1378 DOI ↗