PAMPADROMAEUS
a plant-eating sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of Brasil.
Pronunciation: PAM-puh-DROH-me-us
Meaning: Pampa runner
Author/s: Cabreira
et al. (
2011)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Discovery Chart Position: #790
Pampadromaeus barberenai
(Barbarena's Pampa runner)Etymology
Pampadromaeus is derived from the Quechua "pampa" (plain), in reference to the bare landscape of the fossil site, and the Latinized Greek "dromaeus" (runner).
The
species epithet,
barberenai, honors Brazilian paleontologist Mário Costa Barberena.
Discovery
The remains of
Pampadromaeus were discovered at the "Janner" (also known as "Várzea do Agudo") locality in the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation (Rosário do Sul Group), geopark of Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
The
holotype (ULBRA-PVT016) is a partial skeleton.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Triassic
Stage: Carnian-Norian
Age range: 237-209 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 1.5 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: 10 Kg
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Cabreira SF, Schultz CL, Bittencourt JS, Soares MB, Fortier DC, Silva LR and Langer MC (2011) "New stem-sauropodomorph (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Triassic of Brazil".
Naturwissenschaften, 98(12): 1035-1040.
• Müller RT, Langer MC, Cabreira SF and Dias-da-Silva S (2016)
"The femoral anatomy of
Pampadromaeus barberenai based on a new specimen from the Upper Triassic of Brazil".
Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology, 28(5): 656-665.
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