During the Late Triassic period, approximately 230 million years ago, Eoraptor lunensis, a metre-long omnivorous biped roamed what is now northwestern Argentina.
Eoraptor was one of the earliest dinosaurs and lived at a time when the major divisions within dinosaur groups had only just differentiated.
Facts
| Age | approx. 230 million years old |
| Diet | Carnivore |
| Height | 35cm |
| Length | approx. 1 metre |
| Weight | approx. 2 -3 kilos |
| Discovered at | Ischigualasto, Valle de la Luna, San Juan, Argentina (1991) |
| Discovered by | Ricardo Martinez |
