Ledumahadi mafube McPhee et al. 2018 (sauropodomorph)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: B. W. McPhee, R. B. J. Benson, J. Botha-Brink, E. M. Bordy, and J. N. Choiniere. 2018. A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs. Current Biology 28:1-9

Belongs to Ledumahadi according to B. W. McPhee et al. 2018

See also Barrett and Choiniere 2024, Moro et al. 2020 and Müller and Garcia 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BP/1/7120, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Beginsel farm, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian floodplain mudstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Beginsel farm

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