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eoraptor

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Noun1.eoraptor - a theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor
bird-footed dinosaur, theropod, theropod dinosaur - any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
genus Eoraptor - primitive theropod found in Argentina; early Triassic


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Melissa Davis, Age 8 Maryland The earliest dinosaur that we know about was Eoraptor (EEoh-RAP-tur), "the dawn hunter.
Student Ricardo Martinez found the fossilized Eoraptor less than a mile from the place where, in 1988, Sereno discovered a nearly complete skeleton of the oldest known dinosaur, Herrerasaurus.
Because it is the most primitive dinosaur ever found, Eoraptor provides an unprecedented look backward into the earliest evolution of these beasts from an ancestral form that spawned all later dinosaurs.
 
 
 
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