Reptilia - Saurischia - Massospondylidae

Full reference: K. E. J. Chapelle, P. M. Barrett, J. Botha and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus. PeerJ 7:e7240:1-59

Belongs to Ngwevu according to K. E. J. Chapelle et al. 2019

See also Barrett and Choiniere 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BP/1/4779, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Farm Tevrede (1077) (Upper Elliot), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Farm Tevrede (1077) (Upper Elliot)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.