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EUSKELOSAURUS
(yew-skel-o-sore-us)
meaning: "good leg lizard"
Euskelosaurus
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 |
About

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.

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