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Dinosaur: Eucnemesaurus entaxonis
| Length*: | 6 m | 19.7 ft |
| Weight*: | 550 kg | 1,213 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Late Norian-Rhaetian
Years: 227–201.4 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: McPhee et al.
Year: 2015
Distribution
Area: Africa
Country: South Africa
Region: Eastern Cape
Formation: Lower Elliot
Locations
Sources
Material: Partial skeleton (vertebrae, right ilium, left ischium, right femur and fragments of the left and other fragments).
References: McPhee et al. (2015). A second species of Eucnemesaurus Van Hoepen, 1920 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new information on the diversity and evolution of the sauropodomorph fauna of South Africa’s lower Elliot Formation (latest Triassic).
