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Piatnitzkysaurus
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Translingual
thumb|†Piatnitzkysaurus floresi species skeleton cast
thumb|†Piatnitzkysaurus floresi species life restoration and size comparison with human
Etymology
From mul Piatnitzky en surname -saurus, named in honor of Alejandro Matveievich Piatnitzky (1879–1959), a Russian-born Argentine geologist.
Proper noun
†1 m
genus family †Piatnitzkysauridae family 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.
Hyponyms
genus †Piatnitzkysaurus floresi species sole species
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mul Theropods
mul taxonomic eponyms