Eoraptor

The new finding makes clear that eodromaeus roamed the planet earlier than eoraptor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When they first found the fossilized skeleton, the researchers from Argentina and the USA thought it was another eoraptor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species Sereno and colleagues named in 1993. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But after detailed cleaning and CT scans of its skull and skeleton, new features were discovered that link eoraptor instead with the giant long-necked herbivores called sauropodomorphs, familiar to many as the group including "brontosaurus." ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was there that they first found eoraptor, ee-oh-RAP-tor or "dawn plunderer," in 1991, which some believed was a common ancestor to all dinosaurs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The discovery really "boots out eoraptor the dinosaur from that long held position," says Holtz. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"But I started measuring it in my lab and I realized 'Oh wow, this isn't eoraptor at all,' " says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, one of the authors of the paper announcing the discovery in this week's edition of the journal Science. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Back then, eoraptor was tapped as a small predator, an early theropod like eodromaeus. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Perhaps an eoraptor snapping at panphagia to show the split between close relatives theropods and sauropodmorphs. ❋ Davidmaas (2009)

"But I started measuring it in my lab and I realized 'Oh wow, this isn't eoraptor at all,' " says ❋ Unknown (2011)

For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species ❋ Unknown (2011)

Argentina and the USA thought it was another eoraptor. ❋ Unknown (2011)