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| NAME: | Meaning - Eoraptor means "Dawn plunderer" Pronounced - EE-oh-RAP-tor Named By - Paul Sereno, Forster, Rogers and Monetta When Named - 1993 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - 3 ft (1 m) long Height - 1 ft (30 cm) tall at the hips Weight - ? |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Triassic period, about 228 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in the Ischigualasto Formation, Valley of the Moon, Ischigualsto-Villa Union Basin, in northwestern Argentina, South America. |
| FOSSILS: | Several almost complete skeletons have been found. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Eoraptor is one of the earliest known dinosaurs. Recently, even older dinosaurs have been found in Madagascar. Eoraptor was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. It had light, hollow bones, a long head with dozens of small, sharp teeth, and five fingers on its grasping hands (two of the fingers on each hand were very small). |
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