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"Musankwa" is a Tonga word meaning "boy close to marriage". The specific name, sanyatiensis, references the Sanyati River which flows into Lake Kariba near the type locality. [1] Musankwa is the fourth genus of dinosaurs to be named from Zimbabwe, [1] following "Syntarsus" rhodesiensis in 1969, [4] Vulcanodon in 1972, [5] and Mbiresaurus in ...
Musankwa [97] Gen. et sp. nov Barrett et al. Late Triassic Pebbly Arkose Formation Zimbabwe: A massopodan sauropodomorph. The type species is M. sanyatiensis. Qianjiangsaurus [98] Gen. et sp. nov Dai et al. Late Cretaceous Zhengyang Formation China: An early-diverging hadrosauromorph. The type species is Q. changshengi.
Musankwa [9] M. sanyatiensis: Spurwing Island. An articulated partial right leg. A basal massopodan sauropodomorph Massospondylus: M. sp. Spurwing Island. A basal sauropodomorph. Aetosaur [8] Indeterminate. Herrerasaurid [8] Indeterminate Dande Communal Land.
This list will include the type fossils of each sauropodomorph species.In paleontology, a type specimen is one which is definitionally a member of a biological taxon. ...
Massopoda is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M. Yates of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007.
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At 40 centimetres (16 in) long, the skull of Lishulong is larger than any other sauropodomorph from the Lufeng Formation. The cervical vertebrae are very large and elongated; the centrum of the first preserved cervical vertebra (the axis) is 16.3 centimetres (6.4 in) long, and the centrum of the last preserved cervical vertebra (the tenth consecutive bone in the series) is 19.9 centimetres (7. ...