Meroktenos

DV-0955 · type species Meroktenos thabanensis

Lived: 227 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: Lesotho
Named by: Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 2016

Field notes

About Meroktenos

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

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Meroktenos, from Lesotho. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain in 2016.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

210 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Massospondylusearly sauropodomorph
Heterodontosaurusearly ornithischian
Aardonyxearly sauropodomorph
Dracovenatortheropod
Lesothosaurusearly armored dinosaur
Megapnosaurustheropod
Thecodontosaurusearly sauropodomorph
Pegomastaxearly ornithischian

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodiformes.

AardonyxEarly Jurassic
MussaurusEarly Jurassic
YunnanosaurusEarly Jurassic
MelanorosaurusLate Triassic to Early Jurassic
GongxianosaurusEarly Jurassic
LedumahadiEarly Jurassic
LeonerasaurusEarly Jurassic
CamelotiaLate Triassic

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain. 2016. New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis, a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. PeerJ 4:e1639:1-32