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Dinosaur: Pachyspondylus orpenii
Period
Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Hettangian-Sinemurian
Years: 201.4–190.8 Ma
Details
Status: nomen dubium
Author: Owen
Year: 1854
Distribution
Area: Africa
Country: South Africa
Region: Free State
Formation: Upper Elliot
Sources
Material: Vertebra (destroyed).
References: Yates, Adam M.; Paul M. Barrett (2010). "Massospondylus carinatus Owen 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa: Proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype".
