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A distinctive feature of this dinosaur is the cross-shaped astragalus or talus bone in its ankle. The generic name is derived from the Sesotho word sefapano, meaning ‘cross’ and the Greek word saurus, meaning 'lizard'. The specific name refers to Zastron, the type locality, where the specimen was discovered.
This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered in Africa.Africa has a rich fossil record. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. . African dinosaurs from these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesoth
The Evolutionary Studies Institute's main research focuses include the paleontological and sedimentological development of the Carboniferous-Jurassic Great Karoo Basin, phylogenetic research of dinosaur species and their relatives, and hominins from the Plio-Pleistocene fossil-bearing deposits.
The park is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a 35,000 km 2 peace park that links this park, Kruger National Park in South Africa, Gonarezhou National Park, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe, as well as the area between Kruger and Gonarezhou, the Sengwe communal land in Zimbabwe and the Makuleke region in ...
Dinosaur Tracks and other fossil footprints of Europe. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10710-2. Moore, Randy (2014). Dinosaurs by the Decades: A Chronology of the Dinosaur in Science and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara: Greenwood. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-313-39364-8. Weishampel, David B.; Young, L. (1996). Dinosaurs of the East Coast ...
From 2013 to 2015, the city hosted a provincial team, the Limpopo Blue Bulls, in the Vodacom Cup, as a feeder team to the Blue Bulls of Pretoria. [41] The team broke several unwanted records, including the biggest first class loss in South African rugby history, when they lost 161–3 to the Golden Lions on 27 April 2013. [42]
Camptosaurus (/ ˌ k æ m p t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / KAMP-tə-SOR-əs) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. [1] The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek καμπτος (kamptos) meaning 'bent' and σαυρος (sauros) meaning 'lizard').
His students and mentees at Columbia included Stephen J. Gould, John Ostrom, and Dale Russell. [11] [7] Colbert returned to Nebraska again to collect from the White River Badlands in 1941 with an AMNH expedition. A dinosaur family tree from Colbert's The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and their Relatives (1945).