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Segisaurus
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Segisaurus is known only from a partial postcranial skeleton. No full adult has been found, but this was a small carnivorous dinosaur and probably ate insects.
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- Pronounced
- sayg-ee-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Segi [Canyon] lizard
- Length
- 1.5m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Mid Jurassic
(195 - 180 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Ceratosauria, Coelophysoidea, Coelophysidae, Segisaurus
- Named by
- Camp (1936)
- Type species
- halli