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Antetonitrus ingenipes
Taxonomy
Antetonitrus ingenipes was named by Yates and Kitching (2003). Its type specimen is BP/1/4952, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. 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. It is the type species of Antetonitrus. It was considered monophyletic by Yates and Kitching (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Avanzini et al. p. 190 |
| 2003 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Yates and Kitching pp. 1753-4 figs. 2-3 |
| 2005 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Galton et al. p. 2 |
| 2006 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Moser et al. p. 44 |
| 2007 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Smith and Pol p. 665 |
| 2007 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Upchurch et al. p. 75 |
| 2007 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Yates p. 103 |
| 2008 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Allain and Aquesbi p. 400 |
| 2009 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Barrett p. 1032 |
| 2010 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 535 |
| 2010 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Langer et al. p. 70 |
| 2014 | Antetonitrus ingenipes McPhee et al. p. 158–159 |
| 2021 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Müller and Garcia p. 5 |
| 2024 | Antetonitrus ingenipes Barrett and Choiniere p. 1 |
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†Antetonitrus ingenipes Yates and Kitching 2003
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. M. Yates and J. W. Kitching 2003 | A primitive sauropod with the following autapomorphies. Dorsal neural spines flared transversely at their distal end (present to a lesser extent in Lessemsaurus sauropodoides). Dorsal vertebrae with broad, triangular hyposphenes (in caudal view). A ventral ridge on the hyposphenes of the caudal dorsal vertebrae. A deep sulcus adjacent to the lateral distal margin of the deltopectoral crest. An extremely short, broad metacarpal I. | |
| B. W. McPhee et al. 2014 | A robust, large-bodied transitional sauropodomorph. In addition to the features given in Yates & Kitching (2003), A. ingenipes can be further distinguished from most nonsauropodan sauropodomorphs by the following unique combination of characters (* = autapomorphy): high dorsal neural spines comprising more than half the total height of the neural arch*; dorsal neural arches more than twice as tall as associated centra*; pneumatic subfossae in the posterior infradiapophyseal fossae of the mid-posterior dorsal neural arch; presence of a caudosacral vertebrae; single articular facet on proximal chevrons*; broadly expanded dorsal scapular blade; head of humerus vaulted and expanded posteriorly; medial tuberosity of the humeral head reduced and slightly medially inturned*; delicate, nonsinuous deltopectoral crest; medial deflection of the anterior process of the proximal ulna*; incipient radial fossa on the proximal ulna; distinct bifurcated tubercle on the ventrolateral edge of the shaft of metacarpal 2; femoral shaft elliptical in cross-section and reduced in lateral sinuosity; laterally displaced lesser trochanter of the femur visible in posterior view; fourth trochanter located on the medial edge of the mid-shaft of the femur; anteroposterior length of the proximal surface of the tibia over twice its transverse width and roughly level with the horizontal plane; descend- ing process of the distal tibia compressed laterally so that the anterior ascending process is visible in pos- terior aspect; robust, entaxonically spreading pes; metatarsal 3 less than 40% length of tibia; length of pedal ungual 1 greater than metatarsal 1.
Additionally, Antetonitrus is plesiomorphic relative to more derived sauropodan taxa with respect to the following features: amphicoelous vertebral centra; deltopectoral crest that is orientated perpendicularly to the transverse axis of the distal condyles and represents at least half of the total length of the humerus; deep intercondylar depression (= cuboid fossa) on the distal humerus; large olecranon process of the ulna; short, robust antebrachium; shortened metacarpus with an axially twisted phalanx 1.1; iliac peduncle of the proximal pubis anteriorly subconfluent with the transversely orientated pubic apron; a hypertrophied M. caudofemoralis brevis insertion*; cnemial crest of the tibia transversely broad and anteriorly projecting; metatarsal V reduced in size relative to other metatarsals. |
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hettangian - Sinemurian | South Africa (Free State) | Antetonitrus ingenipes (227614) Euskelosaurus sp. (type locality: 39659) |