Eoraptor
Eoraptor
PrehistoricPhoto: Kentaro Ohno · CC BY 2.0
DinosaurExtinctomnivore
Eoraptor was one of the earliest dinosaurs, scampering around what is now Argentina over 230 million years ago. This small, nimble creature had a mix of different teeth, hinting it wasn't picky about its meals.
- Lived during the Late Triassic, about 231 to 228 million years ago.
- Discovered in 1993 from nearly complete fossil skeletons.
- Its varied teeth suggest it ate both plants and meat.
ForestSouth America
Read more on WikipediaAt a glance
- Classification
- Dinosaur
- Scientific name
- Eoraptor
- Habitat
- Forest
- Regions in this directory
- South America
- Diet
- omnivore
- Relative size
- small