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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor of the Triassic Period, characterized by a grasping hand and numerous sharp teeth. Eoraptor is one of the earliest known dinosaurs.
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- noun a theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But after detailed cleaning and CT scans of its skull and skeleton, new features were discovered that link eoraptor instead with the giant long-necked herbivores called sauropodomorphs, familiar to many as the group including "brontosaurus."
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When they first found the fossilized skeleton, the researchers from Argentina and the USA thought it was another eoraptor.
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The discovery really "boots out eoraptor the dinosaur from that long held position," says Holtz.
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For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species Sereno and colleagues named in 1993.
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It was there that they first found eoraptor, ee-oh-RAP-tor or "dawn plunderer," in 1991, which some believed was a common ancestor to all dinosaurs.
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"But I started measuring it in my lab and I realized 'Oh wow, this isn't eoraptor at all,' " says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, one of the authors of the paper announcing the discovery in this week's edition of the journal Science.
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The new finding makes clear that eodromaeus roamed the planet earlier than eoraptor.
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Back then, eoraptor was tapped as a small predator, an early theropod like eodromaeus.
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Perhaps an eoraptor snapping at panphagia to show the split between close relatives theropods and sauropodmorphs.
Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus... davidmaas 2009
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It was there that they first found eoraptor, ee-oh-RAP-tor or "dawn plunderer," in 1991, which some believed was a common ancestor to all dinosaurs.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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