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Melanorosaurus readi
Taxonomy
Melanorosaurus readi was named by Haughton (1924). Its type specimen is SAM 3449 (lectotype), a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. 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. It is the type species of Melanorosaurus.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1924 | Melanorosaurus readi Haughton |
1939 | Melanorosaurus readi Kuhn p. 67 |
1940 | Melanorosaurus readi Huene p. 263 |
1941 | Melanorosaurus readi Huene p. 141 |
1954 | Melanorosaurus readi Haughton and Brink p. 38 |
1967 | Melanorosaurus readi Charig p. 712 |
1970 | Melanorosaurus readi Ellenberger p. 346 |
1970 | Melanorosaurus readi Steel p. 57 |
1984 | Melanorosaurus readi Olsen and Galton p. 91 |
1985 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton p. 672 |
1993 | Melanorosaurus readi Gauffre p. 148 |
1997 | Melanorosaurus readi Chinsamy p. 677 |
1998 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton and Van Heerden p. 175 |
2000 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton p. 269 |
2002 | Melanorosaurus readi Harris et al. p. 251 |
2003 | Melanorosaurus readi Yates |
2004 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton and Upchurch p. 235 |
2005 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton et al. p. 4 |
2007 | Melanorosaurus readi Galton p. 518 |
2007 | Melanorosaurus readi Smith and Pol p. 665 |
2007 | Melanorosaurus readi Upchurch et al. p. 76 |
2007 | Melanorosaurus readi Yates p. 12 |
2009 | Melanorosaurus readi Barrett p. 1032 |
2010 | Melanorosaurus readi Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 536 |
2010 | Melanorosaurus readi Langer et al. p. 70 |
2010 | Melanorosaurus readi Yates p. 744 |
2011 | Melanorosaurus readi Apaldetti et al. p. 4 |
2015 | Melanorosaurus readi Martínez et al. p. 386 |
2016 | Melanorosaurus readi Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain p. 5 |
2020 | Melanorosaurus readi Moro et al. |
2020 | Melanorosaurus readi Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain p. 26 |
2023 | Melanorosaurus readi Sciscio et al. p. 3 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Melanorosaurus readi Haughton 1924
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Peczkis 1995, Carroll 1988 |
Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Norian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Melanorosaurus readi (type locality: 36704) | |
Norian - Rhaetian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Melanorosaurus readi (36705) Roccosaurus tetrasacralis (36609) | |
Norian - Rhaetian | South Africa (Free State) | Prosauropoda indet. (106571) |