Reptilia - Dinosauromorpha - Silesauridae
Alternative combination: Asilisaurus kongue
Full reference: S. J. Nesbitt, C. A. Sidor, R. B. Irmis, K. D. Angielczyk, R. M. H. Smith and L. A. Tsuji. 2010. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464:95-98
Belongs to Asilisaurus according to S. J. Nesbitt 2011
See also Desojo et al. 2020, Griffin and Nesbitt 2016, Kammerer et al. 2012, MartÃnez et al. 2016, Martz and Small 2019, Moro et al. 2020, Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015, Nesbitt et al. 2010 and Veiga et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMT RB9, a mandible (anterior portion of a left dentary with associated tooth). Its type locality is Litumba Ndyosi (NMT Z34), which is in an Anisian channel mudstone in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Tanzania (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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