Aetonyx
| Aetonyx Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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| Genus: | Aetonyx Broom, 1911
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| Aetonyx palustris Broom, 1911
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Aetonyx (/ˈiːtənɨks/ meaning “eagle claw”, referring to its claws, which were like those of an eagle (Greek αετος/aëtos = eagle + ονυξ/onyx = claw) is a genus of Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived around 198 million years ago during the Hettangian stage in South Africa.
Taxonomy
Broom (1911) classified Aetonyx as a carnosaur, which was followed by von Huene (1932) (who placed Aetonyx in a distinct family Gryponychidae along with Gryponyx),[1][2] but Aetonyx was eventually recognized as a sauropodomorph by van Hoepen (1920) and Nopcsa (1928).[3][4] Numerous authors either classified as an anchisaurid or placed it in synonymy with Massospondylus,[4][5][6] but Galton and Upchurch (2004) tabulated it as a dubious sauropodomorph in their list of basal sauropodomorphs.[7]
References
- ^ Broom, R. (1911). On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 7(4):291-308.
- ^ Friedrich von Huene (1932) Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographien zur Geologie und Paläontologie, Series 1 4: 1–361
- ^ E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1920. Contributions to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Karroo Formation. 6. Further dinosaurian material in the Transvaal Museum. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 7(2):93-141
- ^ a b B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. The genera of reptiles. Palaeobiologica 1:163-188.
- ^ P. M. Galton and M. A. Cluver. 1976. Anchisaurus capensis (Broom) and a revision of the Anchisauridae (Reptilia, Saurischia). Annals of the South African Museum 69(6):121-159.
- ^ Cooper MR. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6:690-840.
- ^ P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch. 2004. Prosauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 232-258.
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