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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Megalosauroidea |
| Family: | Piatnitzkysauridae |
| Genus: | Piatnitzkysaurus Bonaparte 1979 |
| Species: | P. floresi
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| Piatnitzkysaurus floresi Bonaparte 1979
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Classification
| Megalosauroidea |
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Piatnitzkysaurus Media
Piatnitzkysaurus floresi skeletal reconstruction based on PVL 4073.
Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis
Chuandongocoelurus life restoration
A reconstruction based on the new description of S. aegyptiacus.
