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Earliest Dinosaur:

Eoraptor lunensis

Meaning of Name:	“dawn plunderer”
Period:	Triassic Period (240 to 205 million years ago)
Size:	1 meter long
Location:	Argentina

The earliest known dinosaur was Eoraptor lunensis, who is believed to have lived some 227,000,000 years ago.

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