Anusuya Chinsamy - Turan, co-author and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT, says: «The discovery of Sefapanosaurus shows that there were several of these transitional early sauropodomorph dinosaurs roaming around southern Africa about 200 million years ago.» (sciencedaily.com)
Otero and Emil Krupandan, PhD - student from UCT, were visiting the ESI collections to look at early sauropodomorph dinosaurs when they noticed bones that were distinctive from the other dinosaurs they were studying. (sciencedaily.com)
The foot and ankle bone seen here belonged to a large, plant - eating sauropodomorph called Glacialisaurus hammeri, a new genus and species of dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago. (discovermagazine.com)