Ledumahadi

DV-1027 · type species Ledumahadi mafube

Lived: 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: South Africa
Named by: McPhee et al. 2018

Field notes

About Ledumahadi

Ledumahadi was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ledumahadi, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by McPhee et al. in 2018.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

195 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: B. W. McPhee, R. B. J. Benson, and J. Botha-Brink, E. M. Bordy, J. N. Choiniere. 2018. A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs. Current Biology 28:1-9