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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Within Vinony's link graph, Meroktenos is referenced by 442 other articles, and connects out to Sauropodomorpha, Rebbachisauridae and Diplodocoidea.
Vinony files it under Dinosaur genera, Dinosaurs of Lesotho and Elliot Formation.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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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
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- Phylogeny
- Palaeobiology
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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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