Reptilia - Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Alternative combination: Massosaurus carinatus
Full reference: R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London 1-184
Belongs to Massospondylus according to P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch 2004
See also Anonymous 1961, Apaldetti et al. 2011, Barrett 2009, Barrett et al. 2007, Barrett and Yates 2005, Bittencourt and Kellner 2009, Broom 1909, Broom 1912, Broom 1913, Cerda et al. 2013, Cruickshank 1981, Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1974, Erickson 1997, Galton 2007, Galton and Cluver 1976, Haughton 1924, Haughton and Brink 1954, Hay 1910, Huene 1914, Huene 1914, Huene 1940, Knoll et al. 2012, Kuhn 1939, Langer and Benton 2006, Langer et al. 2010, Lee 2016, Lingham-Soliar and Borderick 2000, Moro et al. 2020, Nopcsa 1901, Olsen and Galton 1984, Owen 1854, Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2021, Reisz et al. 2010, Sakagami and Kawabe 2020, Seeley 1892, Seeley 1895, Steel 1970, Sues et al. 2004, Thompson 1975, Tschopp and Mateus 2013, Upchurch et al. 2007, Van Hoepen 1920, Van Hoepen 1920, Veiga et al. 2019, Weems 2006, Yates 2003, Yates 2005, Yates 2010 and Yates et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Massospondylus hislopi, Massospondylus kaalae
Type specimen: Royal College of Surgeons, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Beauchef Abbey (213), Harrismith (zone B/1), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone/shale in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of South Africa (8 collections), Zimbabwe (2)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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