The discovery really "boots out eoraptor the dinosaur from that long held position," says Holtz.    From Wordnik.com.  [New dog-sized dinosaur discovered] Reference

Perhaps an eoraptor snapping at panphagia to show the split between close relatives theropods and sauropodmorphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Time Capsule: me, 3D and Plateosaurus...] Reference

When they first found the fossilized skeleton, the researchers from Argentina and the USA thought it was another eoraptor.    From Wordnik.com.  [New dog-sized dinosaur discovered] Reference

For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species Sereno and colleagues named in 1993.    From Wordnik.com.  [New dog-sized dinosaur discovered] Reference

"But I started measuring it in my lab and I realized 'Oh wow, this isn't eoraptor at all,' " says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, one of the authors of the paper announcing the discovery in this week's edition of the journal Science.    From Wordnik.com.  [New dog-sized dinosaur discovered] Reference

Argentina and the USA thought it was another eoraptor.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

The new finding makes clear that eodromaeus roamed the planet earlier than eoraptor.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

"But I started measuring it in my lab and I realized 'Oh wow, this isn't eoraptor at all,' " says.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

It was there that they first found eoraptor, ee-oh-RAP-tor or "dawn plunderer," in 1991, which some believed was a common ancestor to all dinosaurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

For dinosaur specialists, the real "jaw dropper," according to Sereno, is the comparison between eodromaeus and its equally small companion, eoraptor, a species.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference

But after detailed cleaning and CT scans of its skull and skeleton, new features were discovered that link eoraptor instead with the giant long-necked herbivores called sauropodomorphs, familiar to many as the group including "brontosaurus.".    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News] Reference