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''Sacisaurus'' is a dinosauriform from the Late Triassic (Carnian to Norian) Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil. The scientific name refers to the city where the ''Sacisaurus'' was found, Agudo in the Rio Grande do Sul state and to Saci, a famous one-legged elf from Brazilian mythology, because the fossil skeleton has been found missing a leg. It was discovered in the geopark of Paleorrota. ==Characteristics== ''Sacisaurus'' was 1.5 meters (5 ft) long and 70 centimeters (2.3 ft) high. Its long and strong legs indicate that it was a fast animal. According to Jorge Ferigolo, paleontologist of Zoobothanic Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul state, the biggest teeth of the genus were 3 millimeters (1/12 in) long. The well-preserved jaw indicates that ''Sacisaurus'' was an herbivore, and there is a process at the tip that resembles the ornithischian predentary bone. Further research will attempt to define if ''Sacisaurus'' was the oldest ornithischian dinosaur. Through the cladistic analysis of some of its morphological particularities, its closest relative may be ''Diodorus''.〔Christian F. Kammerer, Sterling J. Nesbitt, and Neil H. Shubin (2011) The first basal dinosauriform (Silesauridae) from the Late Triassic of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (in press) () 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sacisaurus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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