Laquintasaura

Laquintasaura Temporal range: 200.91 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Hettangian
Reconstruction of Laquintasaura venezuelae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Dinosauria
Order:	†Ornithischia
Genus:	†Laquintasaura
Species:	†L. venezuelae
Binomial name
†Laquintasaura venezuelae Barrett et al., 2014[1]

Laquintasaura is a genus of Venezuelan dinosaur containing only the single species Laquintasaura venezuelae. The species is the first dinosaur to have been discovered in Venezuela.^[1][2] Found in the Lower Jurassic, Hettangian, La Quinta Formation from which it takes its name, the bipedal species was about a meter long and 25 centimeters high.^[1][3] L. venezuelae, which is believed to have lived in herds,^[4] was primarily herbivorous, although it may have also eaten large insects and other small animals.^[3][5]

A phylogentic analysis by Baron et al. (2016) recovered Laquintasaura as the sister-taxon to Scutellosaurus, within the clade Thyreophora.^[6]

References

• Barrett, Paul M.; Butler, Richard J.; Mundil, Roland; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Irmis, Randall B.; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (6 August 2014). "A palaeoequatorial ornithischian and new constraints on early dinosaur diversification" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Royal Society. 281 (1791): 1–7. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1147. Retrieved 7 August 2014. 

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