Massospondylus
Description
Source: Wikipédia
Massospondylus est un genre fossile de dinosaures saurischiens herbivores au long cou, du clade des Plateosauria et de celui des Massopoda, et de famille des Massospondylidae. Il a été découvert dans le sud de l'Afrique (Afrique du Sud, Lesotho et Zimbabwe), où il a vécu au Jurassique inférieur (Hettangien à Pliensbachien), soit il y a environ entre 201,4 à 184,2 millions d'années.
Les Massospondylidae appartiennent à l'infra-ordre paraphylétique des Prosauropoda selon certaines classifications évolutionnistes. Selon Paleobiology Database en 2025, ce genre Massospondylus a encore trois espèces référencées Massospondylus carinatus Massospondylus hislopi Massospondylus kaalae.
Information(s)
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- Attibution: Owen 18549842
- Statut: Valide
- Nom commun: A vertèbres massives
- Longueur (en m): ?
- Largeur (en m): ?
- Hauteur (en m): ?
- Poids (en m): de ? à ?
- Environnement de découverte: terrestrial
- Mode de vie: terrestrial
- Mode de locomotion: actively mobile
- Vision: ?
- Alimentation: ?
- Mode de reprodution: ?
- Classification: Massospondylidae >> Massopoda >> Sauropodomorpha >> Saurischia >> Dinosauria
- Période: Carnian - Toarcian (de -237.00 Ma à -174.70 Ma)
- Espèce(s):
- Specimen(s):
Pas de spécimen dans la base de donnée.
- Autre(s) Taxon(s) trouvés dans la litterature:
- Massospondylus
- Massospondylus browni n. species not entered Prosauropoda
- Massospondylus harriesi n. species not entered Prosauropoda
- Massospondylus carinatus
- Massospondylus kaalae
- Massospondylus rawesi n. species not entered Theropoda
- Massospondylus schwarzi n. species not entered Prosauropoda
- Découverte(s): 92 occcurrences
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Lesotho
Namibie
- Otjozondupa
- ?
- Formation Etjo
- Massospondylus: ? 73937
- Formation Etjo
- ?
- Otjozondupa
Afrique du Sud
- Eastern Cape
- Free State
- ?
- Bethlehem
- Clocolan
- Clocolon
- Ficksburg
- Formation Clarens
- Massospondylus carinatus: ? 10538
- Formation Clarens
- Fouriesburg
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi n. sp.: ? 9841
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus browni: ? 14536
- Formation Elliot
- Harrismith
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus carinatus: ? 9842
- Formation Elliot
- Ladybrand
- Formation Clarens
- Massospondylus carinatus: ? 10538
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus: ? 12503
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 17010
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Formation Clarens
- Marquard
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Formation Elliot
- Rosendal
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus: ? 63959
- Formation Elliot
- Winburg
- Formation Elliot
- Massospondylus: ? 25375
- Formation Elliot
- Northern Cape
- ?
- Formation ?
- Prosauropoda identifié comme ? Massospondylus harriesi: ? 16935
- Formation ?
- ?
Zimbabwe
- Mashonaland West
- Matabeleland North
- Nyamandhlovu
- Formation Forest Sandstone
- Massospondylus: ? 32788
- Massospondylus: ? 12925
- Massospondylus: ? 15499
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi: ? 5925
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi: ? 26977
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus cf. harriesi: ? 26977
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi: ? 15499
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi: ? 63435
- Formation Forest Sandstone
- Nyamandhlovu
- Matabeleland South
- Historique des modifications:
Pas de modification récente.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 31 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 R. Owen. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London
- ↑1 2 H. G. Seeley. 1892. Contribution to a knowledge of the Saurischia of Europe and Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 48:188-191
- ↑1 2 R. Broom. 1911. On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):291-308
- ↑1 2 S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497
- ↑1 2 3 R. Lydekker. 1890. Note on certain vertebrate remains from the Nagpur district. Records of the Geological Survey of India 23(1):21-24
- ↑1 2 P. M. Barrett. 2009. A new basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4):1032-1045 (https://doi.org/10.1671/039.029.0401)
- ↑1 G. V. R. Prasad. 1989. Vertebrate fauna from the infra- and inter-trappean beds of Andhra Pradesh: age implications. Journal of the Geological Society of India 34:161-173
- ↑1 A. W. Crompton. 1964. A preliminary description of a new mammal from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 142(3):441-452 (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1964.tb04508.x)
- ↑1 E. D. Mooney, T. Maho, and D. C. T. Rowe, D. Scott, R. R. Reisz. 2025. Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144(1):44:1-17 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125
- ↑1 F. Hölzforster, H. Stollhofen, and I. G. Stanistreet. 1999. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments in the Waterberg-Erongo area, central Namibia, and correlation with the main Karoo Basin, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29(1):105-123 (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0899-5362(99)00083-4)
- ↑1 R. J. Butler, A. M. Yates, and O. W. M. Rauhut, C. Foth. 2013. A pathological tail in a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from South Africa: evidence of traumatic amputation?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1):224-228 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.710691)
- ↑1 2 P. M. Barrett. 2004. Sauropodomorph dinosaur diversity in the upper Elliot Formation (Massospondylus range zone: Lower Jurassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 100:501-503
- ↑1 2 3 H.-D. Sues, R. R. Reisz, and S. Hinic, M. A. Raath. 2004. On the skull of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa. Annals of Carnegie Museum 73(4):239-257 (https://doi.org/10.5962/p.316084)
- ↑1 P. M. Barrett and A. M. Yates. 2005. New information on the palate and lower jaw of Massospondylus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha). Palaeontologia Africana 41:123-130
- ↑1 J. W. Kitching. 1979. Preliminary report on a clutch of six dinosaurian eggs from the Upper Triassic Elliot Formation, Northern Orange Free State. Palaeontologia Africana 22:41-45
- ↑1 R. R. Reisz, D. C. Evans, and H.-D. Sues, D. Scott. 2010. Embryonic skeletal anatomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1653-1665 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2010.521604)
- ↑1 2 3 M. R. Cooper. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6(10):689-840
- ↑1 E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1920. Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 6. Further dinosaurian material in the Transvaal Museum. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(2):93-141
- ↑1 A. B. Busbey III and C. E. Gow. 1984. A new protosuchian crocodile from the Upper Triassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 25:127-149
- ↑1 K. N. Dollman, P. A. Viglietti, and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. A new specimen of Orthosuchus stormbergi (Nash 1968) and a review of the distribution of Southern African Lower Jurassic crocodylomorphs. Historical Biology 31(5):653-664 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1387110)
- ↑1 F. v. Huene. 1911. Über einen Dinosaurierfuss aus der Trias von Südafrika [On a dinosaur foot from the Triassic of South Africa]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1911(2):43-45
- ↑1 L. Sciscio, P. A. Viglietti, and P. M. Barrett, T. J. Broderick, D. Munyikwa, K. E. J. Chapelle, K. N. Dollman, S. F. Edwards, M. Zondo, J. N. Choiniere. 2021. Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Upper Karoo Group in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe: new localities and their implications for interbasinal correlation. Geological Magazine 158:1035-1058 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820001089)
- ↑1 A. E. Phaup. 1932. Fossil reptilian remains from Chelmer Farm, Nyamandhlovu District. Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 31:37-39
- ↑1 M. A. Raath. 1974. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: Further evidence of gastroliths in prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia 7(5):1-7
- ↑1 2 J. Attridge. 1963. The Upper Triassic Karroo deposits and fauna of southern Rhodesia. South African Journal of Science 59(5):242-247
- ↑1 M. A. Raath. 1977. The Anatomy of the Triassic Theropod Syntarsus rhodesiensis (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) and a Consideration of Its Biology. Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Salisbury, Rhodesia
- ↑1 2 G. Bond. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karroo). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 2(20):795-800
- ↑1 G. Bond. 1972. Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75(2):151-158
- ↑1 A. O. Thompson. 1975. The Karoo rocks in the Mazinga area, Beitbridge District. Rhodesia Geological Survey Short Report 40:1-79
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 D. Munyikwa. 1997. Faunal analysis of Karoo-aged sediments in the northern Limpopo Valley, Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10(13):129-140
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