Eodromaeus

Eodromaeus (from the Greek eoos, dawn and dromaios, runner) is a small genus of theropods that lived about 230 million years ago, during the late trias, in modernday Argentina. The typespecies is Eodromaeus murphi.

Discovery and Naming
The holotype (PVSJ 560) of Eodromaeus was discovered in 1996 by a volunteer of a team, lead by Ricardo Martinez, in the Valle de la Luna (in the northwest of Argentina. However, it was first beleaved to be a new specimen of Eoraptor. It was discovered to be a new species after further preparation. It was discribed for the first time as Eodromaeus murphi in 2011 by Martinez, Paul Callistus Sereno, Osca Alcober, Carina Colombi, Paul Renne, Isabel Montañez en Brian Currie.



Description
Eodromaeus was a rather small raptor: PVSJ 562, the biggest of the specimens, was between about 175 and 200 cm long and wieghed between 15 and 25 kg. The holotype, which was used in the media as a reference, was a lot smaller: 1,2 m long, 35 cm high and 4-6 kg heavy.