Ledumahadi
Name:
Ledumahadi
(giant thunderclap).
Phonetic: Le-du-mah-had-e.
Named By: B. W. McPhee, R. B. J.
Benson, J. Botha-Brink, E. M. Bordy, J. & N.
Choiniere - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Saurischia,
Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Lessemsauridae.
Species: L. mafube (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated about 10 meters long.
Known locations: South Africa, Free State
Province - Elliot Formation.
Time period: Hettangian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Ledumahadi
is a lessemsaurid sauropod
dinosaur that lived in South Africa during
the early Jurassic. As a member of the Lessemsauridae, Ledumahadi
would have been similar to other lessemsaurid genera such as
Antetonitrus,
Lessemsaurus
and Ingentia.
Like these genera,
Ledumahadi was not so much long, but very
stocky, with
especially well built forelimbs.
Further reading
- A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the
Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs. - Current
Biology 28:1-9. - B. W. McPhee, R. B. J. Benson,
J. Botha-Brink, E. M. Bordy, J. & N. Choiniere
- 2018.
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