and "boisei" for Charles Boise (the anthropologists team�s funder at the time)
Because of rodent's adaptability they have become the most successful and abundant group of mammals
portion of upper jaw 10 x 11 inches
Later about two dozen specimens were formally referred to the species
The evidence has mostly been based on that of Turkana Boy discovered in 1984
Eoraptor Skull, model T-Rex and "boisei" for Charles BoiseCLASSIFICATION Eoraptor was a saurischian ("lizard hipped") dinosaur, a very primitive theropod, and a member of the infraorder Herrerasauria (which includes Herrerasaurus, Staurikosaurus, Saltopus, and other very early dinosaurs). The type species is Eoraptor lunensis (named by Paul Sereno, Forster, Rogers and Monetta in 1993). WHEN EORAPTOR LIVED Eoraptor lived during the late Triassic period, roughly 228 million years ago. It is one of the oldest