Genus
Valid Extinct

Blikanasaurus

Galton and Van Heerden 1985

Blikanasaurus 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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Terrestrial
Blikanasaurus
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(A) Blikanasaurus cromptoni (holotype SAM K403; from Galton & Van Heerden, 1985). © L. Sciscio, E. M. Bordy, M. G. Lockley, M. Abrahams · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Blikanasaurus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇿🇦 South Africa
2
Geological formations
Elliot
2
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Blikanasaurus cromptoni 227 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1985. Partial hindlimb of <i>Blikanasaurus cromptoni</i> n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Géobios 18(4):509-516 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
A. M. Yates. 2008. A second specimen of Blikanasaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) and the biostratigraphy of the lower Elliot Formation. Palaeontologia africana 43:39-43
P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1985. Partial hindlimb of <i>Blikanasaurus cromptoni</i> n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Géobios 18(4):509-516 DOI ↗