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CASEOSAURUS
(case-o-sore-us)
meaning: "Case's lizard"
Named By: A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, R. M. Sullivan & M. G. Lockley in 1998
Time Period: Late Triassic
Location: USA - Petrified Forest Formation
Size: Up to about 2 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial fossils
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinoauria | Theropoda | Herrerasauridae |
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Caseosaurus ( KAY-zee-o-SAWR-as) is a genus of herrerasaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 235 to 228 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now Texas, in North America. Caseosaurus was a small, lightly-built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore, that could grow up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long.

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