page_title: Eodromaeus
section_title: Phylogeny
hierarchical_section_title: Eodromaeus / Phylogeny
caption_attribution_description: English: Eodromaeus
context_page_description: Eodromaeus was a genus of basal theropod dinosaur known from the Late Triassic Valle de la Luna Member of the Ischigualasto Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina. It has been cited by Sereno as resembling a supposed common ancestor to all dinosaurs, the "Eve" of the dinosaurs.
context_section_description: Eodromaeus is regarded as one of the earliest members of Theropoda, the group that includes the carnivorous dinosaurs. The discovery of Eodromaeus lead some to believe that Eoraptor (typically regarded as a theropod) likely represented one of the most basal sauropodomorphs, the group that includes animals like Apatosaurus. This has since been questioned however, with Bergman and Sues reclaiming Eoraptor as a theropod, like Eodromaeus. This relationship was also recovered in the large analyses of early dinosaurs and other dinosauromorphs that were carried out by Baron, Norman and Barrett (2017).
  Cladogram after Martinez et al., 2011:
caption: Restoration
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