Panphagia
Panphagia protos
Panphagia is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur described in 2009. It lived around 231 million years ago, during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic period in what is now northwestern Argentina. Fossils of the genus were found in the La Peña Member of the Ischigualasto Formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin. The name Panphagia comes from the Greek words pan, meaning "all", and phagein, meaning "to eat", in reference to its inferred omnivorous diet. Panphagia is one of the earliest known dinosaurs, and is an important find which may mark the transition of diet in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs.
- Family
- Sauropodomorpha
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Triassic (231.0–225.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- 1.3 m
- Weight
- 2.5 kg
- Type locality
- Ischigualasto Formation, San Juan, Argentina
- Holotype
- PVSJ 874
- PBDB
- txn:142533