Buriolestes Temporal range: Carnian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Genus: | †Buriolestes Cabreira et al. 2016 |
Species: | †B. schultzi
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Binomial name | |
Buriolestes schultzi Cabreira et al. 2016
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Buriolestes (meaning "Buriol's robber") is a genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic of Brazil. It contains one species, B. schultzi, named in 2016. The type specimen was found alongside a specimen of the lagerpetid dinosauromorph Ixalerpeton.[1]