Species
Valid Extinct

Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis

(Raath 1969)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Coelophysoidea Superfamily
Coelophysidae Family
Megapnosaurus Genus
Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis Species
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
5
🇿🇦 South Africa
1
Geological formations
Forest Sandstone
4
Nyamandhlovu Sandstones
1
Elliot
1
Temporal distribution
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
5
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
M. A. Raath. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4(28):1-254
Bibliography (6)
D. Munyikwa and M. A. Raath. 1999. Further material of the ceratosaurian dinosaur Syntarsus from the Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic) of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 35:55-59
M. A. Raath. 1990. Morphological variation in small theropods and its meaning in systematics: evidence from Syntarsus rhodesiensis. Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge DOI ↗
M. A. Raath. 1977. The Anatomy of the Triassic Theropod Syntarsus rhodesiensis (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) and a Consideration of Its Biology. Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Salisbury, Rhodesia
G. Bond. 1972. Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75(2):151-158
M. A. Raath. 1972. First record of dinosaur footprints from Rhodesia. Arnoldia 5(37):1-5
M. A. Raath. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4(28):1-254