Ignavusaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs from the early Jurassic in southern Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ignavusaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic in what is now Lesotho. Its fossils were found in the Upper Elliot Formation which is probably Hettangian in age (around 200 million years ago). It was described on the basis of a partial, well preserved articulated skeleton. The type species, I. rachelis, was described in 2010 by Spanish palaeontologist F. Knoll.
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Ignavusaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Massopoda |
Genus: | †Ignavusaurus Knoll, 2010 |
Species: | †I. rachelis |
Binomial name | |
†Ignavusaurus rachelis Knoll, 2010 | |
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