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Patricosaurus

Patricosaurus logo #21000 `Patricosaurus` (meaning `paternal lizard`) is the name given to a dubious and chimeric genus of reptile from the Early Cretaceous. It is based on a femur and sacrum from two animals: the femur from a large lepidosaur, and the sacrum from an archosaur (Barrett and Evans, 2002). There is no evidence for `it` being a theropod dinosaur, as it i...
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Patricosaurus

Patricosaurus logo #21009Patricosaurus “ancestral lizard” from Late Cretaceous Europe. The name comes from Greek patrikos, “paternal, ancestral”. Named by Harry Govier Seeley in 1887.
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