Outline: a typical early sauropodomorph
Efraasia
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- Lived
- 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs
- Found in
- Germany
- Named by
- Galton 1973
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
220 million years ago
Field notes
About Efraasia
What it was like
Efraasia was a small, early plant eater, from the long-necked line that later produced the giant sauropods. It walked on two legs and had long hands with grasping fingers.
Its world
It lived in the Late Triassic in what is now southern Germany. Its bones come from the Löwenstein Formation, where it shared the land with Plateosaurus and the hunter Liliensternus.
How it was found
Galton named Efraasia in 1973, after the German scientist who collected the first bones. Five finds are known. For a long time some of its bones were confused with those of other early dinosaurs.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropodomorpha
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 1973. On the anatomy and relationships of Efraasia diagnostica (Huene) n.gen., a prosauropod dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 47(3/4):229-255