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
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.

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.

Referred material:

NESBITT, TURNER, SPAULDING, CONRAD & NORELL, 2009

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