Vulcanodon - Wikipedia
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VERIFY:weight_min_kg: stored=2500 suggested=3500 confidence=medium — The lowest published mass estimate in the literature is Gregory S. Paul's ~3.5 tonnes for an 11 m individual; no current source supports a lower bound as small as 2.5 t.
Åbn kilde ↗Vulcanodon - Wikipedia
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VERIFY:weight_max_kg: stored=5000 suggested=10300 confidence=high — A 2018 study using stylopodial (limb) circumference regression estimated a body mass of about 10.3 metric tons, roughly double the stored upper bound.
Åbn kilde ↗Stratigraphy of the Vulcanodon type locality and its implications for regional correlations within the Karoo Supergroup
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VERIFY:period_start_mya: stored=201.3 suggested=199.3 confidence=medium — Viglietti et al. (2018) constrain the Vulcanodon type locality to a Sinemurian–Pliensbachian age via correlation of the upper Forest Sandstone with the Clarens Formation, so the range should begin at the base of the Sinemurian (~199.3 Ma) rather than at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary.
Åbn kilde ↗Stratigraphy of the Vulcanodon type locality and its implications for regional correlations within the Karoo Supergroup
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VERIFY:period_end_mya: stored=190 suggested=184.2 confidence=medium — The same restudy assigns a Sinemurian–Pliensbachian age, which extends to the top of the Pliensbachian (~184 Ma); a stored end of 190 Ma truncates the supported interval mid-Pliensbachian.
Åbn kilde ↗Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Tazoudasaurus naimi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Jurassic of Morocco
Geodiversitas (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris)
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Peer-reviewed monograph by Allain & Aquesbi (2008) that erects the clade Gravisauria and recovers Vulcanodon karibaensis within Vulcanodontidae among basal Sauropoda, underpinning the stored lineage Dinosauria–Saurischia–Sauropodomorpha–Sauropoda–Gravisauria–Vulcanodontidae.
Åbn kilde ↗Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath 1972 (sauropod)
Paleobiology Database
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Taxon page listing the recorded fossil collections and their stratigraphic and geographic coordinates, confirming an Early Jurassic occurrence in the Forest Sandstone of northern Zimbabwe (Africa) as the sole known range.
Åbn kilde ↗Stratigraphy of the Vulcanodon type locality and its implications for regional correlations within the Karoo Supergroup
Journal of African Earth Sciences
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Peer-reviewed sedimentological and stratigraphic study of the Lake Kariba type locality documenting the aeolian dune and fluvial-interdune palaeoenvironment of the Forest Sandstone and its position between Karoo basalt flows.
Åbn kilde ↗Vulcanodon | Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum, London (Dino Directory)
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Museum taxon entry explicitly classifying Vulcanodon as a herbivorous (plant-eating) sauropod dinosaur.
Åbn kilde ↗PBDB Taxon: Vulcanodon
Paleobiology Database
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Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Åbn kilde ↗A reassessment of Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath (Dinosauria: Saurischia) and the origin of the Sauropoda
Palaeontologia Africana (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Cooper's (1984) full redescription of the holotype and referred material, the standard authoritative overview of the anatomy, size and systematic position of Vulcanodon karibaensis.
Åbn kilde ↗A reassessment of Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath (Dinosauria: Saurischia) and the origin of the Sauropoda
Palaeontologia Africana (University of the Witwatersrand)
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Cooper's (1984) full redescription of the holotype and referred material, the standard authoritative overview of the anatomy, size and systematic position of Vulcanodon karibaensis.
Åbn kilde ↗A reassessment of Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath (Dinosauria: Saurischia) and the origin of the Sauropoda
Palaeontologia Africana (University of the Witwatersrand)
Gennemgået: 8.9.2026
Cooper's (1984) full redescription of the holotype and referred material, the standard authoritative overview of the anatomy, size and systematic position of Vulcanodon karibaensis.
Åbn kilde ↗A reassessment of Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath (Dinosauria: Saurischia) and the origin of the Sauropoda
Palaeontologia Africana (University of the Witwatersrand)
Gennemgået: 8.9.2026
Cooper's (1984) full redescription of the holotype and referred material, the standard authoritative overview of the anatomy, size and systematic position of Vulcanodon karibaensis.
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