Buriolestes
Buriolestes schultzi
Buriolestes is a genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. It contains a single species, B. schultzi, named in 2016. The type specimen was found alongside a specimen of the lagerpetid pterosauromorph Ixalerpeton.
- Family
- Saturnaliidae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Triassic (233 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 1.5 m
- Weight
- 5 kg
- Type locality
- Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Holotype
- ULBRA-PVT280
- PBDB
- txn:347521