Blikanasaurus

DV-0300 · type species Blikanasaurus cromptoni

Lived: 227 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: South Africa
Named by: Galton and Van Heerden 1985

Field notes

About Blikanasaurus

Blikanasaurus was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 201 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Blikanasaurus, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by Galton and Van Heerden in 1985.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

210 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodiformes.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton and J. Van Heerden. 1985. Partial hindlimb of <i>Blikanasaurus cromptoni</i> n. gen. and n. sp., representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Géobios 18(4):509-516