Back Herrerasaurus Afrikaans هيريراصور Arabic Хереразаври Bulgarian Herrerasaurus Breton Herrerasaure Catalan Herrerasaurus CEB Herrerasaurus Czech Herrerasaurus German Ερρεράσαυρος Greek Herrerasaurus Spanish
| Herrerasaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic (Carnian),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria (?) |
| Clade: | Saurischia (?) |
| Family: | †Herrerasauridae |
| Genus: | †Herrerasaurus Reig, 1963 |
| Species: | †H. ischigualastensis
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| †Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis Reig, 1963
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Herrerasaurus is likely a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic period. This genus was one of the earliest dinosaurs from the fossil record. Its name means "Herrera's lizard", after the rancher who discovered the first specimen in 1958 in South America. All known fossils of this carnivore have been discovered in the Ischigualasto Formation of Carnian age (late Triassic according to the ICS, dated to 231.4 million years ago) in northwestern Argentina.[1] The type species, Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis, was described by Osvaldo Reig in 1963[2] and is the only species assigned to the genus. Ischisaurus and Frenguellisaurus are synonyms.
For many years, the classification of Herrerasaurus was unclear because it was known from very fragmentary remains. It was hypothesized to be a basal theropod, a basal sauropodomorph, a basal saurischian, or not a dinosaur at all but another type of archosaur. However, with the discovery of an almost complete skeleton and skull in 1988,[3][4] Herrerasaurus has been classified as an early saurischian in most of the phylogenies on the origin and early evolution of dinosaurs.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
It is a member of the Herrerasauridae, a family of similar genera that were among the earliest of the dinosaurian evolutionary radiation.[13][14]
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