Ornithischia

Laquintasaura venezuelae

Laquintasaura venezuelae skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~1.2 m.
Scale bar = 10 centimeters
Taxon
Laquintasaura venezuelae Barrett et al., 2014
Reconstructed length
~1.2 m (4 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2012, revised 2014
Clade
  1. Ornithischia

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A small, early ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Venezuela, roughly a meter (3 feet) long. Laquintasaura is notable as one of the few dinosaurs known from northern South America and appears to have lived in groups.

As published in Barrett et al. (2014)

Laquintasaura venezuelae skeletal reconstruction as published in Barrett et al. (2014).
Figure from Barrett et al. (2014)

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