Gojirasaurus

Taxobox
name = "Gojirasaurus"
fossil range = Late Triassic
image_size = 200px
image_caption = "Gojirasaurus"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
familia = Coelophysidae
genus = "Gojirasaurus"
genus_authority = Carpenter, 1997
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"G. quayi" Carpenter, 1997 (type)

"Gojirasaurus" is a genus of dinosaur named after Gojira (the Japanese name for Godzilla). It was discovered in Revuelto Creek, Quay County, New Mexico. The type specimen is a partial skeleton of a subadult, about 5.5 m (18 ft) long, which can be extrapolated to a weight of approximately 150–200 kg (330–440 lb). An adult would have been around 6.5 m (21 ft) long. It lived during the Norian age of the Late Triassic Period, between 220 and 209 million years ago.

"Gojirasaurus" was a member of the Coelophysoidea, which were small, early theropods. "Gojirasaurus" was perhaps the largest meat-eating dinosaur known from the Triassic Period and enormous for its time. A serrated tooth, four ribs, four vertebrae, and a few other bones have been uncovered.

References

* [http://www.dinoruss.org/de_4/5a64962.htm "Gojirasaurus" in The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia] at Dino Russ' Lair