Panphagia

eats everything

• pan · Greek · all
• phagia · Greek · eating (from phagein, 'to eat')

The name combines the Greek "pan" (all) with "phagia" (eating). It alludes to the idea that this early sauropodomorph was omnivorous, as its teeth show features of both meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs. The only named species is Panphagia protos, with "protos" meaning "first" because it is one of the most primitive known sauropodomorphs.

Named by

Martínez and Alcober

Year named

2009

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Carnian

Found in

Ischigualasto Formation, San Juan Province, Argentina

A basal sauropodomorph (an early relative of the long-necked sauropods), known from a partial skeleton.