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Aardonyx

Information

Aardonyx is known from 2 immature individuals. Adults would have been much larger, probably over 10m.

Aardonyx would have been largely bipedal (walking on 2 legs) but also capable of walking on all 4 legs. This and its way of feeding are transitional features between those of basal sauropodomorphs and the more derived sauropods (large dinosaurs that walked on all fours) that came later.

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Fact file

Pronounced

ar-don-ix

Meaning of name

Earth claw

Length

over  8m

Diet

herbivorous

When it lived

Early Jurassic
(200 - 190 million years ago)

Found in

South Africa

Taxonomic details