Blikanasaurus (lat.) - a genus of dinosaurs from the suborder zavropodmorf [1] . Fossil remains were found in the Elliot formation and are dated to the upper Triassic ( 227.0—201.3 million years ago [1] ).
| † Blikanasaurus |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Infraclass : | Archosauromorphs |
| No rank : | Archosauriformes |
| Suborder : | † Zavropodomorfy |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Blikanasaurus
Galton & van Heerden, 1985 |
| Single species |
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† Blikanasaurus cromptoni
Galton & van Heerden, 1985 |
Geochronology227.0—201.3 million years | million years | Period | Era | Eon |
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| 2.588 | Even | | | Ka | F
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th | | 23.03 | Neogene | | 66.0 | Paleogene | | 145.5 | a piece of chalk | M
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th | | 199.6 | Yura | | 251 | Triassic | | 299 | Permian | P
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th | | 359.2 | Carbon | | 416 | Devonian | | 443.7 | Silur | | 488.3 | Ordovik | | 542 | Cambrian | | 4570 | Precambrian |
◄ Nowadays◄ Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction◄ Triassic extinction◄ Perm mass extinction◄ Devonian extinction◄ Ordovician-Silurian extinction◄ Cambrian explosion |
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The holotype SAM K403 is stored in the South African Museum in Cape Town and is a left lower limb. A typical and only species, Blikanasaurus cromptoni , was first described by Halton and Van Heerden in 1985 [2] .
In the description, the genus was singled out in the family Blikanasauridae of the claura prosuropod, but since 2003 it has been systematized as a representative of the more progressive suborder of sauropod [1] . In 2015, a group of taxonomists headed by McPhee, in describing a new type of dinosaur, conducted phylogenetic studies, as a result of which Blikanasaurus was attributed to the Sauropodiformes hoard outside the suborder Sauropod [3] .