Chilesaurus
| Chilesaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic ~ | |
|---|---|
| Cast of the holotype skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Genus: | †Chilesaurus Novas et al. 2015 |
| Species: | †C. diegosuarezi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chilesaurus diegosuarezi Novas et al. 2015 | |
Chilesaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinosaur. The type and only known species so far is Chilesaurus diegosuarezi. Chilesaurus lived between 148-147 million years ago (Mya) in the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Showing a combination of traits from theropods, ornithischians, and sauropodomorphs, this genus has far-reaching implications for the evolution of dinosaurs, such as whether the traditional saurischian-ornithischian split is superior or inferior to the proposed group Ornithoscelida.
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