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Massospondylus
Unknown diet
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There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Massospondylus (Elliot), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Lesothosaurus
Jurassic
Melanorosaurus
Triassic
Lycorhinus
Jurassic
Eucnemesaurus
Triassic
Antetonitrus
Jurassic
Blikanasaurus
Triassic
Dracovenator
Jurassic
Ignavusaurus
Jurassic
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Sauropodomorph (long-necked)
- Family
- Massospondylidae
- When it lived
- 174.7–237 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Carnian – Toarcian
- Named by
- Owen, 1854
- Fossil occurrences
- 80 sites
Countries with fossils
- Lesotho
- Namibia
- South Africa
- Zimbabwe
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata