alphynix: A dinosaur with a rather unfortunate name: Pantydraco. Giggle all you want. I’ll wait. Nam
alphynix: A dinosaur with a rather unfortunate name: Pantydraco. Giggle all you want. I’ll wait. Named for the location of its discovery, the Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry in Wales, this early sauropodomorph lived at the very end of the Triassic about 205-201 million years ago. It’s only known from a partial juvenile skeleton – probably around 1.5m long (4′11″) in life – but the full adult size is unknown. Unlike the later quadrupedal plant-eating sauropods, Pantydraco was bipedal and may have been omnivorous. And while we know some of its more famous giant relatives were definitely scaly-skinned, with the increasing evidence for fuzz being ancestral to all dinosaurs it’s not too much of a stretch to think these basal ‘prosauropods’ were still fluffy, too. (Also: check out this post for a good summary of ‘prosauropod’ anatomy.) -- source link
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