Outline: a typical theropod
Aniksosaurus
"spring lizard"
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Compsognathidae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Martínez and Novas 2006
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Aniksosaurus
What it was like
Aniksosaurus was a small, lightly built meat eater, known from bones of several animals, mostly legs and backbones.
Its place among the theropods is uncertain.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern Argentina. Its bones come from the Bajo Barreal Formation, where it shared the land with the hunter Xenotarsosaurus and the titanosaurs Epachthosaurus and Sarmientosaurus.
How it was found
Martínez and Novas named Aniksosaurus in 2006. Its name refers to the spring equinox, the day when the bones were found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Compsognathidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. D. Martínez and F. E. Novas. 2006. Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 8(2):243-259