Piatnitzkysaurus

Translingual

Etymology

From English Piatnitzky (“surname”) +‎ -saurus, named in honor of Alejandro Matveievich Piatnitzky (1879–1959), a Russian-born Argentine geologist.

Proper noun

†Piatnitzkysaurus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family †Piatnitzkysauridae – a moderately large theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 179 to 177 million years ago during the lower part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Argentina.

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