Trinisaura is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived during the late Campanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous, around 73 to 72 million years ago in what is now James Ross Island off the coast of nor
Trinisaura esqueletico
Image of James Ross Island, where Trinisaura's fossils were discovered
Skeleton of the closely related Talenkauen, a genus from Patagonia
Speculative life restoration
The Snow Hill Island Formation is an Early Maastrichtian geologic formation found on James Ross Island, James Ross Island group, Antarctica. Remains of a paravian theropod Imperobator antarcticus have
Trinisaura
…pelvis, and nearly complete right hindlimb. The fossils were collected in 2008 by paleontologists Juan Moly and Rodolfo Coria from the sandstone of the Snow Hill Island Formation. It remained undescribed in the collections of the Museo de La Plata until its description by Coria and colleagues in 2013, being the basis of the novel…
Artist's reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of the Snow Hill Island Formation
Specimen of the same genus
Specimen of the same genus