Caseosaurus

Описание: Caseosaurus

Caseosaurus (/ˌkeɪzioʊˈsɔːrəs/ KAY-zee-oh-SOR-əs) is a genus of saurischian dinosaur that lived approximately 221.5 to 212 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now Texas, North America. It was a small, lightly-built, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore, and could grow up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long.

Description
The genus Caseosaurus, is known from specimen UMMP 8870, an isolated hip bone measuring nearly 141 mm. A 3D model of this specimen is available on the University of Michigan Online Repository of Fossils. Size estimates suggest that Caseosaurus was up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long and weighed up to 50 kilograms (110.2 pounds) at most.[1]

Discovery
The genus name Caseosaurus means "Case's lizard", and was named in honor of the scientist who discovered it, Ermine Cowles Case. The suffix "-saurus" Greek(σαυρος) means "lizard".[2] The specific name crosbyensis, is a Latinized rendering of Crosby County in Texas, the site of its discovery. Caseosaurus was described, and named by A. P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas, Andrew B. Heckert, Robert M. Sullivan, and Martin Lockley in 1998, with the type species being Caseosaurus crosbyensis.[3]

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