Pantydraco

Pant-y-ffynnon dragon

• Pant-y-ffynnon · Welsh · name of the quarry, roughly 'hollow of the spring'
• draco · Latin · dragon

Pantydraco is named after the Pant-y-ffynnon quarry near Bonvilston in South Wales, where its fossils were found. The quarry's Welsh name means roughly "hollow of the spring". It is combined with the Latin "draco", meaning dragon, to give "Pant-y-ffynnon dragon". The type species is Pantydraco caducus.

Named by

Galton, Yates and Kermack

Year named

2007

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Rhaetian

Found in

Pant-y-ffynnon quarry, near Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

A small, early sauropodomorph (a basal member of the group that later included the giant sauropods). Its fossils were previously assigned to Thecodontosaurus, and it was later given its own genus. The species name caducus is Latin for "infirm" or "fragile".