Eotetrapodiscus moyenensis Ellenberger 1970 (mammal)

Mammalia

Alternative combination: Eotetrapodiscus moyensis

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

Belongs to Eotetrapodiscus according to P. E. Olsen and P. M. Galton 1984

See also Ellenberger 1970 and Ellenberger 1974

Sister taxon: Eotetrapodiscus cursor

Type specimen: 73, a footprint. Its type locality is Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian fine channel fill sandstone/sandstone in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Moyeni tracksite (zone B/1)

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