Alvarezsaurus
"Don Gregorio Alvarez's lizard"
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CLASSIFICATION

Alvarezsaurus Bonaparte, 1991
    TYPE SPECIES:
  • A. calvoi Bonaparte, 1991
Animalia
Vertebrata
Tetrapoda
Sauropsida
Archosauromorpha
Ornithodira
Dinosauria
Theropoda
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria
Alvarezsauria

see also: Genus Index, Classification


MEASUREMENTS

LENGTH: 2 m

see also: World Records


TIME

Coniacian to Santonian

see also: Ages of the Mesozoic


PLACE

Argentina

see also: Paleo-Maps


REMAINS

see also: Anatomy


ESSAY

The most primitive alvarezsaur known.


IMAGES

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T. MICHAEL KEESEY

Pencil, Digital (Two-Dimensional)

[THUMBNAIL] the unusual bird(?) Alvarezsaurus calvoi

JULIUS CSOTONYI

Ink

[THUMBNAIL] sundry theropods
I.    Alvarezsaurus calvoi
II.   Coelophysis bauri
III.  Baryonyx walkeri
IV.   Oviraptor philoceratops
V.    Aublysodon mirandis
VI.   Anserimimus planinychus
VII.  Avimimus portentosus
VIII. Compsognathus longipes
IX.   Carnotaurus sastrei
X.    Ceratosaurus nasicornis
(These are not to the same scale. Alvarezsaurus may have been a bird, and therefore feathered.)

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