Full reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370
Parent taxon: Dicynodontia according to S. D'Orazi Porchetti and U. Nicosia 2007
See also Ellenberger 1970, Ellenberger 1972, Olsen and Galton 1984 and Romero Molina et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Bidentalia, Brachyprosopus, Chelyoposaurus, Chelyoposaurus williamsi, Dicranozygoma, Dicranozygoma leptoscelus, Dicynodon leptorhinus, Dicynodontida, Dicynodontidae, Dicynodontoidea, Diictodontia, Diictodontidae, Diictodontoidea, Dolichuranus, Dolomitipes, Dromasaurida, Dromasauroidea, Emydopoidea, Emydorhinus, Endothiodontia, Endothiodontidae, Endothiodontoidea, Eocyclops, Eodicynodon, Eodicynodontia, Eodicynodontidae, Eodicynodontoidea, Eumantelliidae, Eurycarpus oweni, Fukangolepis barbaros, Haughtoniana, Haughtoniana magna, Heuneus, Hyorhynchus, Kannemeyeriidae, Kannemeyeriiformes, Kannemeyeroidea, Katumbia, Kingoridae, Kingorioidea, Koupia, Koupia koupensis, Oudenodon strigiceps, Platycyclops, Pristerodontia, Pristerodontoidea, Ptychognathus, Pylaecephalidae, Rhinodicynodon, Shansiodontidae, Stahleckeriidae, Taognathus, Taognathus megalodon, Therapsipus, Therochelonia, Venjukoviamorpha
Subtaxa: Pentasauropus argentinae Pentasauropus incredibilis
Type: Pentasauropus incredibilis
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Lesotho (2 collections)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), Lesotho (4), United States (2: Colorado, Utah)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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