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 africanus

GRANDORDER: 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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