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Chilesaurus, a plant-eating theropod from the Jurassic

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looks a beaky dino too


  • Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Linnaeus


    I've read somewhere that there was once a strange quadrupedal theropod, in form resembling a sauropod more than anything else...This theropod, like Chilesaurus, was also a herbivore. Can't remember for the life of me what this dino was called, but I'll try to retrieve the info about him...Until then, can anyone find something about this dinosaur?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    You might be thinking of Segnosaurus, which was a real puzzle for a while, and was often depicted as being quadrupedal:

    peters12.jpg

    Other similar theropods like Erlikosaurus known from very fragmentary remains were also depicted as quadrupedal and prosauropod-like:

    dinosaur-images-097-resize.jpg

    Today we know they both belonged to family Therizinosauridae and were most likely fully bipedal.


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