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Blikanasaurus âśť

Description

Blikanasaurus cromptoni is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the late Triassic of South Africa. The generic name Blikanasaurus is derived from Greek, meaning “lizard from Blikana.” The species name cromptoni is taken from the surname of A.W. “Fuzz” Crompton, an American paleontologist who led numerous field expeditions in Elliot Formation outcrop localities in South Africa. Blikanasaurus is only known from partial hindlimb bones that were recovered from the lower Elliot Formation (LEF) in the Eastern Cape.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4818169https://www.gbif.org/species/4818169
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)38652https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38652
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Blikanasaurus
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Blikanasaurus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Saurischia
-EusaurischiaPadian et al. 1999
-Sauropodomorpha
-MassopodaYates 2007
-SauropodiformesMartinez et al. 2011
genusBlikanasaurusGallon & van Heerden 1985
Scientific NameBlikanasaurus Gallon & van Heerden, 1985
Name Published InGeobios, Lyon 18 (4)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Blikanasauridaestated without evidenceGalton and Van Heerden, 1985
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to BlikanasauridaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Blikanasauridaestated without evidenceGalton and Van Heerden, 1998
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated with evidenceYates, 2003
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Blikanasauridaestated without evidenceKnoll, 2004
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated with evidenceUpchurch et al., 2004
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated without evidenceGalton et al., 2005
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated with evidenceUpchurch et al., 2007
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated without evidenceSmith and Pol, 2007
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodastated with evidenceApaldetti et al., 2011
Blikanasaurusgenusbelongs to Sauropodiformesstated with evidenceMcPhee et al., 2015
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance228 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
Last Recorded Appearance228 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Diapsida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1985. Partial hindlimb of Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. GĂ©obios 18(4):509-516
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikanasaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Blikanasaurus cromptoni âśť
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1985Blikanasaurus Galton and Van Heerden
1988Blikanasaurus Carroll
1998Blikanasaurus Galton and Van Heerden p. 164
2003Blikanasaurus Yates
2004Blikanasaurus Knoll p. 77
2004Blikanasaurus Upchurch et al. p. 261
YearName and Author
2005Blikanasaurus Galton et al. p. 2
2007Blikanasaurus Smith and Pol p. 668 fig. 7
2007Blikanasaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2011Blikanasaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2013Blikanasaurus Otero and Pol
2015Blikanasaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12

References

Galton P. M., Van Heerden J. (1985) Partial hindlimb of Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa, GĂ©obios 18 4, 509-516
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Knoll F. (2004) Review of the tetrapod fauna of the "Lower Stormberg Group" of the main Karoo Basin (southern Africa): implication for the age of the Lower Elliot Formation, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175 1, 73-83
Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2004) Sauropoda, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 259-322
Galton P. M., Van Heerden J., et al (2005) Postcranial anatomy of referred specimens of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus from the Upper Triassic of South Africa, Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1-37
Smith N. D., Pol D. (2007) Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 4, 657-674
Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2007) A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 77, 57-90
Apaldetti C., Martinez R. N., et al (2011) A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina, PLoS ONE 6 11, e26964:1-19 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964
Otero A., Pol D. (2013) Postcranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 5, 1138-1168
McPhee B. W., Choiniere J. N., et al (2015) A second species of Eucnemesaurus Van Hoepen, 1920 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new information on the diversity and evolution of the sauropodomorph fauna of South Africa's lower Elliot Formation (latest Triassic), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 5, e980504:1-24 doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.980504
Geobios, Lyon 18 (4) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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