Pantydraco
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| Pantydraco Fossil range: Late Triassic |
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| Pantydraco caducus Galton, Yates, and Kermack, 2007 |
Pantydraco (where "panty-" is short for Pant-y-ffynnon, referring to the quarry in South Wales where it was found) was a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of United Kingdom. It is based on a partial juvenile skeleton once thought to belong to Thecodontosaurus.
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[edit] History
In 2003, Adam Yates named the new species Thecodontosaurus caducus for a skull and partial skeleton (neck, partial shoulder girdle, and humeri) of a juvenile dinosaur, with additional material known for it. This material had been known in the scientific literature since 1984, and had been used to represent the genus Thecodontosaurus.[1] However, changed understanding of the relationships and characteristics of basal sauropodomorphs (also known as prosauropods) has led Peter Galton, Yates, and D. Kermack to give T. caducus its own genus.[2]
[edit] Paleobiology
As a basal sauropodomorph, Pantydraco would have been an omnivore, probably mostly bipedal.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Yates, Adam M. (2003). "A new species of the primitive dinosaur Thecodontosaurus (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for the systematics of early dinosaurs". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1 (1): 1–42. doi:.
- ^ Galton, Peter M.; Yates, Adam M; and Kermack, D. (2007). "Pantydraco n. gen. for Thecodontosaurus caducus YATES, 2003, a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of South Wales, UK.". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 243 (1): 119–125. doi:.
- ^ Galton, Peter M.; and Upchurch, Paul (2004). "Prosauropoda", in Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press, 232-258. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
