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Melanorosaurus
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Melanorosaurus is a very early sauropod.
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- Pronounced
- me-lan-or-oh-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Black [Mountain] lizard
- Length
- 12m
- Diet
- omnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Triassic
(227 - 221 million years ago) - Found in
- South Africa
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Prosauropoda, Anchisauria, Melanorosauridae, Melanorosaurus
- Named by
- Haughton (1924)
- Type species
- readi