Ignavusaurus

Ignavusaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
Life reconstruction of Ignavusaurus rachelis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Massopoda
Genus: †Ignavusaurus
Knoll, 2010
Species:
†I. rachelis
Binomial name
†Ignavusaurus rachelis
Knoll, 2010

Ignavusaurus is an extinct monospecific genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic in what is now Lesotho. Its fossils were found in the Upper Elliot Formation which is probably Hettangian in age around 200 million years ago. It was described on the basis of a partial, well preserved articulated skeleton. The type species, Ignavusaurus rachelis, was described in 2010 by Spanish palaeontologist F. Knoll.

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