Reptilia - Saurischia - Lessemsauridae
Full reference: A. M. Yates and J. W. Kitching. 2003. The earliest known sauropod dinosaur and the first steps towards sauropod locomotion. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270(1525):1753-1758
Belongs to Antetonitrus according to B. W. McPhee et al. 2014
See also Allain and Aquesbi 2008, Avanzini et al. 2003, Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010, Barrett 2009, Galton et al. 2005, Langer et al. 2010, Moser et al. 2006, Müller and Garcia 2021, Smith and Pol 2007, Upchurch et al. 2007, Yates 2007 and Yates and Kitching 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BP/1/4952, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Antetonitrus type, Welbedacht (611)/Edelweiss (698), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian floodplain siltstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of South Africa (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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