#trinisaura

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart​

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Name: Trinisaura santamartaensis

Name Meaning: Trinidad Diaz’ Reptile

First Described: 2013

Described By: Coria et al. 

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Ornithopoda

Trinisaura is another so-called Elasmarian, but it was not included in the Boyd analysis, so I have tentatively placed it solely within Ornithopoda as per the original analysis of the animal. It, like all of this similar and yet not Ornithischians, was a small bipedal animal. A subadult individual was approximately 1.5 meters long, so adults of the genus would have gotten somewhat larger. It is known from the Snow Hill Island Formation on James Ross Island, Antarctica. It dates back to the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 80 million years ago. It is, sadly, only known from a partial skeleton. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinisaura