Piatnitzkysaurus

Piatnitzkysaurus (meaning "Piatnitzky's lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur. It lived about 166 to 164 million years ago in the middle Jurassic Period. Its remains were found in Argentina. The animal was a fairly large, lightly built, bipedal, land-based carnivore. It grew up to 6.6 m (21.7 ft) long.

Piatnitzkysaurus
Skeleton cast
Scientific classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix):	Megalosauroidea
Family:	Piatnitzkysauridae
Genus:	Piatnitzkysaurus Bonaparte 1979
Species:	P. floresi
Binomial name
Piatnitzkysaurus floresi Bonaparte 1979

Classification

Megalosauroidea	Xuanhanosaurus Marshosaurus Condorraptor Piatnitzkysaurus80 px Chuandongocoelurus Monolophosaurus File:Monolophosaurus jiangi jmallon (flipped).jpg Megalosauria Spinosauridae Megalosauridae 80 px

Piatnitzkysaurus Media

• Piatnitzkysaurus floresi skeletal reconstruction.jpg

  Piatnitzkysaurus floresi skeletal reconstruction based on PVL 4073.

• Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis.png

  Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis

• Chuandongocoelurus life restoration.jpg

  Chuandongocoelurus life restoration

• Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.png

  A reconstruction based on the new description of S. aegyptiacus.