Melanorosaurus readi Haughton 1924 (sauropodomorph)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497

Belongs to Melanorosaurus according to C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain 2020

See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010, Barrett 2009, Charig 1967, Chinsamy 1997, Ellenberger 1970, Galton 1985, Galton 2000, Galton 2007, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Galton and Van Heerden 1998, Galton et al. 2005, Gauffre 1993, Harris et al. 2002, Haughton 1924, Haughton and Brink 1954, Huene 1940, Huene 1941, Kuhn 1939, Langer et al. 2010, Martínez et al. 2015, Moro et al. 2020, Olsen and Galton 1984, Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 2016, Sciscio et al. 2023, Smith and Pol 2007, Steel 1970, Upchurch et al. 2007, Yates 2003, Yates 2007, Yates 2007 and Yates 2010

Sister taxa: Roccosaurus, Roccosaurus tetrasacralis

Type specimen: SAM 3449 (lectotype), a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Thaba 'Nyama, Herschel (zone A/6), which is in a Norian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Triassic of South Africa (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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