Herrerasaurus means"Herrera's lizard," named after Victorino Herrera who discovered it. It lived in South America during the Middle Triassic (230 million years ago). Though not quite a true dinosaur, it is on the verge. Herrerasaurus has all but a few of the characters which define the dinosaurs, lacking only certain features of the hip and leg bones.
Coelophysis means "hollow face." It lived in western North America during the Late Triassic (215 million years ago). One of the earliest dinosaurs, thousands of Coelophysis bones have been discovered in the Ghost Ranch quarry of New Mexico, leading to speculation that these small, lithe, theropods roamed in packs.
Also a Plateosaurus skull can be seen to the right. The name means "flat lizard," and it lived in western Europe during the Late Triassic (220-210 million years ago). It was the prototypical prosauropod--the sub-order of small-to-medium sized, occasionally bipedal, plant-eating dinosaurs that were distantly ancestral to the giant sauropods and titanosaurs of the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
At the Museum of Ancient Life, Thanksgiving Point, Utah.
Coelophysis means "hollow face." It lived in western North America during the Late Triassic (215 million years ago). One of the earliest dinosaurs, thousands of Coelophysis bones have been discovered in the Ghost Ranch quarry of New Mexico, leading to speculation that these small, lithe, theropods roamed in packs.
Also a Plateosaurus skull can be seen to the right. The name means "flat lizard," and it lived in western Europe during the Late Triassic (220-210 million years ago). It was the prototypical prosauropod--the sub-order of small-to-medium sized, occasionally bipedal, plant-eating dinosaurs that were distantly ancestral to the giant sauropods and titanosaurs of the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
At the Museum of Ancient Life, Thanksgiving Point, Utah.
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Yessir. The vertebra were not meant, nor able to support vertical locomotion, and neither were the hips configured for it. Carrying the body horizontal was also for balance; the tails were a counterbalance. And when you think about it, birds walk with their bodies horizontal, too.
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