DinoDigNyasasaurus parringtoni
- Time
- 241.5–246.7 million years ago
- Period
- Unknown
- Known sites
- 2
Summary
Nyasasaurus is an extinct genus of avemetatarsalian archosaur from the putatively Middle Triassic Manda Formation of Tanzania that may be the earliest known dinosaur. The type species Nyasasaurus parringtoni was first described in 1956 in the doctoral thesis of English paleontologist Alan J. Charig, but it was not formally described until 2013.
Source: Wikipedia - Nyasasaurus
Known Sites
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