Aardonyx | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Granskad: 2026-09-10
General authoritative overview of Aardonyx covering its body shape, size, herbivorous diet, Early Jurassic age and South African occurrence.
Öppna källa ↗Lithostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa
University of Pretoria Repository / South African Journal of Geology
Granskad: 2026-09-10
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Granskad: 2026-09-10
General authoritative overview of Aardonyx covering its body shape, size, herbivorous diet, Early Jurassic age and South African occurrence.
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Granskad: 2026-09-10
General authoritative overview of Aardonyx covering its body shape, size, herbivorous diet, Early Jurassic age and South African occurrence.
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk
Granskad: 2026-09-10
VERIFY:weight_min_kg: stored=400 suggested=1000 confidence=high — The Natural History Museum's Dino Directory gives a mass estimate of roughly 1,000-2,000 kg for Aardonyx, based on comparison with similar sauropodomorphs; the stored 400 kg lower bound is far below any published estimate.
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk
Granskad: 2026-09-10
VERIFY:weight_max_kg: stored=600 suggested=2000 confidence=high — Current estimates place the upper mass of Aardonyx at about 2,000 kg (other compilations cite ~1.7 tonnes), more than three times the stored 600 kg maximum.
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk
Granskad: 2026-09-10
VERIFY:length_max_m: stored=7 suggested=10 confidence=medium — The two known specimens were roughly seven metres long but were immature (under about 10 years old and still growing), so a full-grown adult is estimated at around 10 metres or more; other compilations cite maxima of 8.7-9 m.
Öppna källa ↗Palaeoclimatic conditions in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic of southern Africa: A geochemical assessment of the Elliot Formation
www.sciencedirect.com
Granskad: 2026-09-10
VERIFY:period_start_mya: stored=199.3 suggested=201.3 confidence=medium — Radiometric and detrital-zircon dating supports a Hettangian-Sinemurian age for the upper Elliot Formation, which hosts Aardonyx; the base of the Hettangian is ~201.3 Ma, so the stored 199.3 Ma start (an outdated Sinemurian base) is inconsistent with the stored Hettangian stage assignment.
Öppna källa ↗A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-10
Original description of Aardonyx celestae by Yates et al. (2010), establishing its placement within Sauropodomorpha as the sister taxon to obligate quadrupedal sauropodomorphs (Melanorosaurus + Sauropoda).
Öppna källa ↗A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-10
Documents the sole known locality of Aardonyx on the farm Spion Kop near Senekal, Free State, South Africa, and its stratigraphic position in the upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic).
Öppna källa ↗Palaeoclimatic conditions in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic of southern Africa: A geochemical assessment of the Elliot Formation
Journal of African Earth Sciences (Elsevier)
Granskad: 2026-09-10
Geochemical reconstruction of the semi-arid, strongly seasonal fluvial-floodplain palaeoenvironment of the Elliot Formation in which Aardonyx lived.
Öppna källa ↗A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Granskad: 2026-09-10
Describes the narrow, cheekless jaws and craniodental anatomy of Aardonyx and their implications for its bulk herbivorous feeding mode.
Öppna källa ↗Aardonyx | Natural History Museum Dino Directory
Natural History Museum, London
Granskad: 2026-09-10
General authoritative overview of Aardonyx covering its body shape, size, herbivorous diet, Early Jurassic age and South African occurrence.
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