Meroktenos
Sign in to saveMeroktenos is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period of what is now Lesotho.
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- Parent taxon
- Sauropodomorpha
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- Right femur of Meroktenos.png
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- end time
- 201000000-
- start time
- 216500000-
- taxon name
- Meroktenos
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- genus
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Meroktenos is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period of what is now Lesotho.
==Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Ilium In 1959, François Ellenberger, Paul Ellenberger, Jean Fabre and Leonard Ginsburg discovered the type specimen, a thighbone or femur and other assorted bones, south of the village of Thabana Morena. In 1962 these were addressed in a thesis by D. Costedoat. The exact location the bones were recovered, is today unknown.
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