Herbstosaurus

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Herbstosaurus
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Superfamily: Dsungaripteroidea?
Genus: Herbstosaurus
Binomial name
Herbstosaurus pigmaeus
Casamiquela, 1974

Herbstosaurus (meaning "Herbst's lizard") is the name given to a genus of pterosaur. It was first thought to be a Compsognathus-like small coelurosaurian dinosaur. Herbstosaurus lived during the Jurassic period, in what is now Argentina. The type species, H. pigmaeus, was described in 1974.

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