Alternative combination: Aardonjx celestae
Full reference: A. M. Yates, M. F. Bonnan, J. Neveling, A. Chinsamy, and M. G. Blackbeard. 2010. A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism. Proceedings of The Royal Society B 277(1682):787-794
Belongs to Aardonyx according to A. M. Yates et al. 2010
See also Müller and Garcia 2021, Reisz et al. 2010, Yates 2010 and Yates et al. 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BP/1/6254, a maxilla (rostral half of the left maxilla). Its type locality is Marc's Quarry, farm Spion Kop 932 (BPI), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian channel mudstone/sandstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Marc's Quarry, farm Spion Kop 932 (BPI)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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