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Chindesaurus ( CHIN-dee-SAWR-us - Chinde (Navajo
Navajo language

Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan languages spoken in the southwest United States by the Navajo people . It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages ....
, chiindii) meaning "ghost or evil spirit" and Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of theropod dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
 named after the Chinde Point, near where the genoholotype specimen (a partial skeleton) was discovered in Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest National Park is along Interstate 40 between Holbrook, Arizona and Navajo County, Arizona, in the United States. It features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, mostly of the species Araucarioxylon arizonicum....
, Arizona
Arizona

The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
, by Bryan Small in 1984.

Chindesaurus was a basal
Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, a basal clade is the earliest clade to branch in a larger clade; it appears at the base of a cladogram.A basal group form an outgroup to the rest of the clade, such as in the following example:...
 theropod which lived around 225 million years ago during the Late Triassic
Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....
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Chindesaurus ( CHIN-dee-SAWR-us - Chinde (Navajo
Navajo language

Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan languages spoken in the southwest United States by the Navajo people . It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages ....
, chiindii) meaning "ghost or evil spirit" and Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of theropod dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
 named after the Chinde Point, near where the genoholotype specimen (a partial skeleton) was discovered in Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest National Park is along Interstate 40 between Holbrook, Arizona and Navajo County, Arizona, in the United States. It features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, mostly of the species Araucarioxylon arizonicum....
, Arizona
Arizona

The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
, by Bryan Small in 1984.

Chindesaurus was a basal
Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, a basal clade is the earliest clade to branch in a larger clade; it appears at the base of a cladogram.A basal group form an outgroup to the rest of the clade, such as in the following example:...
 theropod which lived around 225 million years ago during the Late Triassic
Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....
. It was between 6 and long, and was formally described by Long and Murry in 1995. The type species
Type species

In taxonomy, a type species is the species that originally defined a genus . It is an individual specimen that fixes the name of a genus . Two different definitions are used interchangeably, in a general term and a botanical term....
, Chindesaurus bryansmalli, is named in honor of the discoverer.