Named By: | Thomas Henry Huxley in 1866 |
Time Period: | Late Triassic |
Location: | Lesotho - Lower Elliot Formation. South Africa - Lower Elliot Formation. Zimbabwe - Mpandi Formation |
Size: | Roughly about 10 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Many individuals are known |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | |
Also known as: | | Euscelosaurus | |
Euskelosaurus ("good leg lizard") was a semi-bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a plateosaurid that lived in the Late Triassic Period, in present-day South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. It was first described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1866 as Euskelesaurus brownii based on holotype BMNH R1625, limb and spinal bones found by Alfred Brown in 1863. The name was in 1902 emended by Friedrich von Huene into Euskelosaurus.