SauropodomorphaSauropoda

Antetonitrus ingenipes

Known skeletal material of Antetonitrus ingenipes: preserved elements shown in white against a black body silhouette.
Known material · Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Antetonitrus ingenipes Yates & Kitching, 2003
Estimated length
~8.4 m (28 feet)
View
Left lateral
Basis
Known material only — too incompletely known to restore
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2024
Clade
  1. Sauropodomorpha
  2. Sauropoda

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Antetonitrus lived in southern Africa during the Late Triassic. It sits at a stage where the ancestors of sauropods had adopted quadrupedal gaits, but hadn’t yet acquired the elephant-like columnar limbs found in most true sauropods.