Alternative combinations: Melanorosaurus thabaensi, Melanorosaurus thabanensis
Full reference: F.-X. Gauffre. 1993. The most recent Melanorosauridae (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Lower Jurassic of Lesotho, with remarks on the prosauropod phylogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1993(11):648-654
Belongs to Meroktenos according to C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain 2020
See also Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gauffre 1993, Heerden and Galton 1997, Müller and Garcia 2021, Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 2016 and Sciscio et al. 2023
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN LES-16. Its type locality is Thabana-Morena (zone A/6), which is in a Norian/Rhaetian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.
Distribution: found only at Thabana-Morena (zone A/6)
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