page_title: Sanjuansaurus
section_title: Discovery
hierarchical_section_title: Sanjuansaurus / Discovery
caption_attribution_description: English: Maxilla of Sanjuansaurus gordilloi (PVSJ 605). Français&#160;: Maxillaire de Sanjuansaurus gordilloi (spécimen PVSJ 605).
context_page_description: Sanjuansaurus is a genus of herrerasaurid dinosaur from the Late Triassic Cancha de Bochas and La Peña Members of the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina.
context_section_description: Sanjuansaurus was named and described in 2010 by Oscar Alcober and Ricardo Martinez. The type species was named S. gordilloi after Raul Gordillo, the head fossil preparator and artist of the San Juan Museum. 
  It is known from and based on an associated and partially articulated partial skeleton (PVSJ 605) consisting of a jaw fragment, most of the vertebral column from the axis to the anterior tail, the shoulder blades, an ulna, part of the pelvis, most of the long bones of the legs, and a few other bones.
caption: Maxilla of PVSJ 605
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