SOUTH AFRICA
FREE STATE (ORANGE FREE STATE) PROVINCE
FOURIESBURG DISTRICT
FOUTAINE
ELLIOT FORMATION
EARLY JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985
INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992
SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842
COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985
SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932
ORDER: PROSAUROPODA HUENE, 1920 (emend)
SUBORDER: PLATEOSAURIA TORNIER, 1913
Family: MASSOSPONDYLIDAE Huene, 1914
Massospondylus carinatus
= Hortalotarsus skirtopodus
= Gyposaurus skirtopodus
= Thecodontosaurus skirtopodus
= *Aetonyx palustris
= Gryponyx africanusGRANDORDER: BRONTOSAURIA OLSHEVSKY, 1991 (emend)
MICRORDER: SAUROPODA MARSH, 1878
Family: ANCHISAURIDAE Marsh, 1885
Anchisaurus capensis
= Hortalotarsus skirtopodus
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SOUTH AFRICA
FREE STATE (ORANGE FREE STATE) PROVINCE
FOURIESBURG DISTRICT
FOURIESBURG
ELLIOT FORMATION
EARLY JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985
INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992
SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842
COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985
SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932
ORDER: PROSAUROPODA HUENE, 1920 (emend)
SUBORDER: PLATEOSAURIA TORNIER, 1913
Family: MASSOSPONDYLIDAE Huene, 1914
Massospondylus carinatus
= *Gryponyx taylori
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SOUTH AFRICA
FREE STATE (ORANGE FREE STATE) PROVINCE
FOURIESBURG DISTRICT
FOUTAIN
MR. J. L. HARRIES FARM
ELLIOT FORMATION
EARLY JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985
INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992
SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842
COHORT: ORNITHISCHIFORMES COOPER, 1985
SUPERORDER: SAUROPODOMORPHA HUENE, 1932
ORDER: PROSAUROPODA HUENE, 1920 (emend)
SUBORDER: PLATEOSAURIA TORNIER, 1913
Family: MASSOSPONDYLIDAE Huene, 1914
Massospondylus carinatus
= *Massospondylus harriesi
= *Gryponyx africanus
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