Genus: Magapnosaurus IVIE, SLIPINSKI & WEGRZYNOWICZ, 2001
Etymology: Greek, megas, "big," Greek, apnoos, "dead" and Greek, sauros, "lizard": Big dead lizard, this moniker seems highly appropriate for this animal.
= Syntarsus RAATH, 1969 non FAIRMAIRE, 1869 (Syntarsus asperulus, Insceta, Zopheridae) 
Etymology: Greek, syn, "with, together" and Greek, tarsos, “tarsus”: for the coossified construction of its’ tarsal foot bones.

Species: rhodesiensis (RAATH, 1969) IVIE, SLIPINSKI & WEGRZYNOWICZ, 2001
Etymology: For the country of Rhodesia, Old name for Zimbabwe.
= Syntarsus rhodesiensis RAATH, 1969
= Coelophysis rhodesiensis (RAATH, 1969) PAUL, 1988

Holotype: Queen Victoria Museum QG 1

Locality: Found on a small stream, the Kwengula River, on Southcote Farm, which lies 20 miles N. W. Bulawayo, 19'58"S, 28'35"N, Nyamandhlovu district, Zimbabwe.

Horizon: Forest Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: ?Hettangian-Sinemurian Stage, Lower-Middle Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material: Skull, dentary, axis-atlas complex, vertebral arches and centra, scapula and coracoid, and bones of the ankle are all fully fused, gastralia basket.
Note: Palaeopathology, healed fractures have been noted in the tibia, metatarsus (MOLNAR, 2001)

Referred material:

QG 178: Fragmentary skeleton.

QG 176: Complete disarticulated skeleton.

QG 177, 179, 170, 172, 160, 396, 180, 171, 405, 406, 408, 413, 514, 563, 517, 550, 524, 31, 726, 753, 755, 733, 725, 760, 729, 727, 731, 734, 716, 756, 76, 740, 739, 743, 714, 717, 742, 745, 738, 744, 715, 691, 734, 757, 723, 746, 748, 722: Fragmentary skeletons.

QG 180, 406, 408: Dorsal vertebrae.

QG 193. Scapulocoracoid.

QG 687: Radius.

QG 563: Ulna.

QG 768: Metatarsals.

QG 846: Metatarsals.

QG 745: Fragmentary skeleton.

QG 577: Manus of a juvenile.

QG 691: Fragmentary skeleton of a “gracile” juvenile.

QG 164: Fragmentary skeleton of a juvenile.

BRISTOWE & RAATH, 2004

QG 165: Partially disarticulated skull of a juvenile.

NESBITT, TURNER, SPAULDING, CONRAD & NORELL, 2009

QG 193 (CT6/EIII), QG 193 (CT6/E), QG 244 (CT6/F), QG 244 (CT6/G): 5 Furculae.

Locality: Chitake River Locality, Queen Victoria Museum Locality code CT6, approx. 16’07”S, 29’30”E, Zimbabwe.

Horizon: Upper Elliot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

QG 193: Braincase, frontoparietals, articulation of postorbital and squamosal, nasal, maxilla and mandible.

QG 195, 196, 197: Braincase and endocranium.

QG 265: Length of pterygoid.

QG 194: Braincase, endocranium, quadrate and pterygoid.

QG 235, 241: Pterygoid/ectopterygoid and palatine.

QG 202: Articulation of nasal, maxilla and premaxilla and tip of jaws of a juvenile .

QG 278: Articulations of prefrontal, lachrymal and jugal.

QG 307: Mandible.

 

 

Locality: Southcote Farm, Zimbabwe.

Horizon: Forest Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Material of both gracile and robust animals.

 

 

Locality: Maura River, Zimbabwe.

Horizon: Forest Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Robust and gracile animals.

 

= Coelophysis rhodesiensis BLACKBEARD & YATES, 2007

Locality: Farm Spioenkop, Senekal District, Free State, South Africa.

Horizon: Upper Elliot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Partial skeleton.

MUNYIKWA & RAATH, 1999

Locality: Paradys farm, Ladybrand District, on 1:50 000 map sheet 2927 AB, Ladybrand), Free (Orange Free) State province, South Africa.

Horizon: Upper Elliot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

BP/1/5278: Snout region with teeth.

Locality: On an adjacent area between the adjoining farms Welbedacht and Edelweiss, Ladybrand District, on 1:50 000 map sheet 2927 AB, Ladybrand), Free (Orange Free) State province, South Africa.

Horizon: Upper Elliot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

BP/1/5246: Most of left ilium, fused sacrum, right ilium fragment.