This dinosaur finally got released from its 240 million year-old imprisonment in rough sediment in 2006 by an Argentinian palaeontologist called Ricardo N. MartÃnez. But it took three years until it was formally documented and the papers were released in 2009.
Panphagia is quite tiny for a sauropod. Just like Herrerasaurus, Eoraptor and all other herrerasaurs, these used to be thought as not belonging to any particular branch of the dinosaur family tree. However, in the new dinosaur family tree, herrerasaurs and prosauropods are assessed as basal saurischians along with only sauropods, while theropods and ornithischians are grouped together as Ornithoscelida.
Panphagia is quite clandestine, because it’s specimens would go into a trading card game as hyper-legendary. To be honest, Panphagia is next to totally inadequate with only a few bits and pieces here and there. But luckily, we know enough to know that Panphagia was most likely a semi-quadrupedal
omnivore with reasonably large thumb claws which it could use to catch or spear small animals on to the end of its hook-like claws. This is the cause of the previous misplacement of the prosauropods Eshanosaurus, first thought to be a therizinosaur coelurosaurid.
Quick Facts-Panphagia:
Size: 1.7m
Weight: 2-10kg
Type: lightweight, small omnivore
Habitat: Ischigualasto Formation, Argentina
Related Animals: Saturnalia, Eoraptor
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