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Eocursor holotype SAM-PK-K8025

SAM-PK-K8025 is a disarticulated partial skeleton used to test the anatomy and placement of an early ornithischian.

Represented range210–201.3 Ma
RegionsLower Elliot Formation, South Africa
CladesOrnithischia

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topology · medium

Holotype SAM-PK-K8025 preserves a partial skull, vertebrae and limb elements from the Lower Elliot Formation; its early ornithischian placement is a morphology-matrix result and does not make the specimen a direct ancestor or a global first appearance.

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References

  1. A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of OrnithischiaButler, R.J.; Smith, R.M.H.; Norman, D.B. · 2007 · DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.0367
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