Pendraig

chief dragon

• pen · Welsh · head, chief
• draig · Welsh · dragon

Pendraig comes from the Welsh words for "chief" or "head" and "dragon". It echoes the Welsh title "Pendragon" from Arthurian legend, and the dragon is also the national symbol of Wales, where the fossils were found. The only known species, Pendraig milnerae, honours the paleontologist Angela Milner.

Named by

Spiekman et al.

Year named

2021

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Rhaetian

Found in

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

A small early theropod dinosaur, related to coelophysoids. It is known from fossils found in Triassic fissure-fill deposits. The Rhaetian age is the generally cited one, but the dating of these deposits is somewhat uncertain.