What is Nyasasaurus Parringtoni?

What is Nyasasaurus Parringtoni? Nyasasaurus Parringtoni is the oldest dinosaur ever found on the planet by anthropologist named Sterling Nesbitt in Tanzania, when Nyasasaurus exist in ancient time, there is a giant continent called Pangea, Pangea consists of South America, Africa, Australia, Antartica. And Tanzania is a part of continent Pangea where Nyasasaurus Parringtoni lived.


They said this oldest dinosaur has five foot, it's a small creature, unlike brontosaur etc. Researchers are bringing a statement that this dinosaur is a creature the size of a Labrador retriever, but with a five foot-long tail, that walked the Earth about 10 million years before more familiar dinosaurs like the small, swift-footed Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus. The name Nyasasaurus parringtoni is new, but “Nyasasaurus” – combining the lake name Nyasa with the term “saurus” for lizard – is not.

The late paleontologist Alan Charig, included as a co-author on the paper, named the specimen but never documented or published in a way that was formally recognized. “Parringtoni” is in honor of University of Cambridge’s Rex Parrington. The findings mean that the dinosaur lineage appeared 10 million to 15 million years earlier than fossils previously showed, originating in the Middle Triassic rather than in the Late Triassic period.

 

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