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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)

McPhee, B. W.; Choiniere, J. N.; Yates, A. M.; Viglietti, P. A. (2015)

Citation

McPhee, B. W.; Choiniere, J. N.; Yates, A. M.; Viglietti, P. A. (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). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5): e980504. Informa UK Limited. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.980504

Names first published here

Cited by genera

  • Eucnemesaurus

    Places both species in the lower Elliot Formation.

  • Leonerasaurus

    Recovers Leonerasaurus near the base of Sauropoda, more derived than earlier analyses, and attributes this to missing data.

  • Plateosauravus

    Gives the "type" series as SAM-PK-3341 to 3356, 3602, 3603 and 3607 to 3609, the last of them the heavier animal Haughton made the type of Euskelosaurus africanus.