Meroktenos
Name:
Meroktenos
(thigh beast).
Phonetic: Me-rok-te-nos.
Named By: C. Peyre de Fabrègues & R.
Allain - 2016.
Synonyms: Melanorosaurus thabanensis.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha.
Species: M. thabanensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Femur 48 centimetres long. Body length
roughly estimated at about 4 meters.
Known locations: Lesotho - Elliot Formation.
Time period: Late Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Initially described as a species of Melanorosaurus, M. thabanensis was elevated to its oven genus level and named Meroktenos in 2016. Meroktenos is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that once lived in Africa during the late Triassic.
Further reading
- New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis,
a basal
sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. - PeerJ
4:e1639:1-32. - C. Peyre de Fabrègues & R. Allain
- 2016.
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