The oldest juvenile dinosaurs from Africa

✍ Scribed by J.F. Durand

• Book ID: 104354036
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 323 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-343X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0899-5362(01)00079-3

✦ Synopsis

Recently discovered juvenile dinosaur remains from the Lower Elliot Formation (Upper Triassic) of South Africa can be assigned to Euskelosaurus browni (Huxley), an early prosauropod dinosaur. The oldest known juvenile prosauropods, before this discovery, were those from the Upper Triassic of Patagonia in Argentina. Although a satisfactory age correlation between the Lower Elliot Formation of the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa and the El Tranquilo Formation of Argentina has not been done yet, the South African juvenile dinosaurs remain the oldest reported from Africa. This latest discovery contributes to the understanding of the development and reproductive behaviour of early dinosaurs.