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Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Eoraptor
Eoraptor lunensis (Eoraptor · Eoraptor)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of about 1.7 m (representative value for the genus) is similar to the height of an adult human, and a weight of about 10 kg is the same as a single 10 kg bag of rice (Comparison).
- 💡 Because its fossils come from among the oldest known dinosaurs, it shows what dinosaurs looked like just as they began to spread.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Eoraptor lunensis (genus Eoraptor) was a very early small dinosaur that lived in Argentina during the Late Triassic, and its name means "dawn plunderer." The museum classifies it as a small theropod.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It walked on two legs, and its teeth were small, sharp, and curved backward. Its body length is recorded as about 1.7 m and its weight as about 10 kg.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
Judging from the shape of its teeth, it likely hunted other vertebrates.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20717940
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eoraptor Lunensis 20250105.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — eoraptor.html
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.