Outline: a typical early sauropodomorph
Pantydraco
"dragon from the hollow"
- Lived
- 237 to 227 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Length
- about 3 m (10 ft)
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Galton et al. 2007
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical early sauropodomorph shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
230 million years ago
Field notes
About Pantydraco
What it was like
Pantydraco was a small, early plant eater, about 3 meters (10 feet) long if fully grown, from the long-necked line that later produced the giant sauropods. It walked on its hind legs and had a small head with leaf-shaped teeth.
The only known skeleton is from a young animal.
Its world
It lived in the Late Triassic in what is now Wales. Its bones come from a quarry, where cracks in older limestone filled with sediment and bones.
How it was found
Galton and colleagues named Pantydraco in 2007. The skeleton had once been thought to belong to Thecodontosaurus.
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropodomorpha
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton, A. M. Yates, and D. M. Kermack. 2007. Pantydraco n. gen. for Thecodontosaurus caducus Yates, 2003, a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic or Lower Jurassic of South Wales, UK. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 243(1):119-125