Name: Ngwevu
(grey skull).
Phonetic: Ng-g-wer-vu.
Named By: Kimberley E. J. Chapelle, Paul M.
Barrett, Jennifer Botha & Jonah N. Choiniere - 2019.
Classification: Chordata. Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Massospondylidae.
Species: N. intloko (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Elliot Formation.
Time period: Early Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Ngwevu
is a genus of sauropodomorph
dinosaur that lived in Africa during the
Jurassic.
Further reading
- Ngwevu intloko: a new
early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation
of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus
carinatus. - PeerJ. 7: e7240. - Kimberley E. J.
Chapelle, Paul M. Barrett, Jennifer Botha & Jonah N.
Choiniere - 2019.
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