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Technosaurus smalli

By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable

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Name: Technosaurus smalli

Name Meaning: Tech Reptile

First Described: 1984

Described By: Chatterjee

Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Silesauridae

Technosaurus is probably a Silesaurid, but it was named by Chatterjee, who isn’t exactly the most robust or thorough scientists out there when it comes to describing early Dinosauromorphs. In fact, the original fossil was determined to be a chimera - which is fairly typical for Chatterjee - with only a part of the jaw being thought to be that of a Silesaurid, though that’s under debate, and it can’t be confidently be said to be anything more than an Archosauriform. It lived in the Bull Canyon Formation of Texas, in the Norian age of the Late Triassic, about 210 million years ago. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technosaurus

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