Two Gnathovorax crossing the dunes - Illustration inspired by the Marchezan fossil site of two individuals of Gnathovorax cabreirai, a Brazilian relative of the Argentinian Herrerasaurus which was discovered in 2019 from one of the most complete fossil skeletons of any Herrerasaurid, traversing the sand dunes which covered vast swathes of Pangea in what is now the Late Triassic-aged Santa Maria Formation of Rio Grande do Sul in the far south of Brazil, approx. 233 million years ago. The one at the top is scavenging a rhynchosaur that died of thirst in the middle of the desert while the one at the bottom is carrying a half-devoured juvenile cynodont in its jaws.






















