Agnosphitys

• Cromhall Quarry of Avon, England

Agnosphitys cromhallensis is a bipedal, carnivorous archosaurs from the Late Triassic of England. In the official description of the descriptor, the thesis, Agnosphitys that Herrerasauridae and Eoraptor were, contrary to the general opinion, no dinosaurs, but only a sub-group. Today, however, they are classified within the group of dinosaurs Saurischia.

The genus name is derived from the Greek words on = no, gnosis = knowledge, phylon = race together, the Artepitheth is named after its locality, the Cromhall Quarry of Avon, England, named.

The holotype material (VMNH 1745) is an in 1990 discovered in Cromhall Quarry left ilium ( ilium ). Additional material from the same site this animal has also been attributed, including the left maxilla are ( upper jaw ), several astragalus ( talus ), a humerus ( upper arm bone) as well as teeth. The chronology is still uncertain, probably date the finds from the Norian and Rhaetian the.

Agnosphitys was no longer than three meters.