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LEONERASAURUS
(le-o-ne-rah-sore-us)
meaning: "Leoneras lizard"
Leonerasaurus
Named By: D. Pol, A. Garrido & I. A. Cerda in 2011
Time Period: Early Jurassic, 199 Ma
Location: Argentina - Las Leoneras Formation
Size: Holotype is a subadult and very roughly estimated to be about 2.5 meters long, but fully grown adults were almost certainly larger than this
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains of a subadult, including dentary, vertebrae, pectoral girdle, pelvis and sacrum
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Anchisauria |
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Leonerasaurus is a basal genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur. Currently, there is only one species known, named L. taquetrensis by Diego Pol, Alberto Garrido and Ignacio A. Cerda in 2011. The fossil, an incomplete subadult individual, was found in the Las Leoneras Formation in Argentina. This formation is probably Early Jurassic in age. Leonerasaurus was a small non-sauropod sauropodomorph, showing an unusual combination of basal and derived characters. This indicates that the evolution of early sauropodomorphs witnessed a great degree of convergent evolution.

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