Chindesaurus
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Chindesaurus is an extinct genus of basal saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States. It is known from a single species, C. bryansmalli, based on a partial skeleton
Badlands of Petrified Forest National Park at Hózhó Point (formerly known as Chinde Point), near the site where "Gertie" was discovered
Life restoration of Chindesaurus interpreted as a non-herrerasaurid theropod, within the paleoenvironment of Petrified Forest National Park
Marasuchus
Diodorus restoration
Herrerasauria
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Herrerasauria is an extinct clade of carnivorous dinosaurs, possibly basal to either theropods or all saurischians, or even their own branching from Dracohors, separate from Dinosauria altogether. The
Chindesaurus
…originally believed to belong to "prosauropods" (basal sauropodomorphs), but its original description and numerous subsequent papers argued that it was a herrerasaurid or herrerasaurian. A 2019 redescription of its holotype considered Chindesaurus to be a theropod closely related to Tawa, a slightly smaller dinosaur…
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