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early long-neck
Panphagia
Say it like this: “pan-FAG-ee-uh”
Panphagia protos
Panphagia ate plants and meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Triassic. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Late Triassic (Carnian) · roughly 237 to 227.3 million years ago
- Named in
- 2009 · Martínez, R. N.; Alcober, O. A.
- Hip height
- 0.5 m · 2 ft
- Length
- 1.3 m · 4 ft
- Weight
- 6 kg · 13 lb
- Found in
- Argentina · Ischigualasto
- Food and walking
- Omnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- early long-neck · Sauropodomorph
- Family branch
- Saturnaliidae
The story in short
In 2009, R. N. Martínez and O. A. Alcober published the name Panphagia. The name means “to eat.”
It lived in the Late Triassic (Carnian), roughly 237 to 227.3 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Ischigualasto Formation. It was an omnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Panphagia at a length near 1.3 m, hips about 0.5 m high, and a body mass around 6 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Saturnaliidae, among the early long-necked dinosaurs.