Named By: | R. N. Martinez & O. A. Alcober in 2009 |
Time Period: | Late Triassic 231 Ma |
Location: | Argentina - Ischigualasto Formation |
Size: | Holotype estimated to be about 1.3 meters long, though fully grown adults were almost certainly larger |
Diet: | Omnivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skull and post cranial skeletal remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | |
Panphagia is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur described in 2009. It lived around 231 million years ago, during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic period in what is now northwestern Argentina. The name Panphagia comes from the Greek words pan, meaning "all", and phagein, meaning "to eat", in reference to its inferred omnivorous diet. Panphagia is one of the earliest known dinosaurs, and is an important find which may mark the transition of diet in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs.