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Ledumahadi BP/1/7120 gigantism model

The partial postcranial holotype BP/1/7120 anchors histological age, body-mass and limb-posture analyses of early sauropodomorph gigantism.

Represented range200.5–195 Ma
RegionsElliot Formation, Free State, South Africa
CladesSauropodomorpha

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morphology · medium

Holotype BP/1/7120 is a partial postcranial skeleton whose limb histology indicates an adult and whose circumference-based model estimates about 12 tonnes with habitual quadrupedality despite flexed, non-columnar limbs; mass and posture are comparative model outputs.

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References

  1. A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphsMcPhee, B.W.; Benson, R.B.J.; Botha-Brink, J.; Bordy, E.M.; Choiniere, J.N. · 2018 · DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.063
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