Likhoelesaurus
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"Likhoelesaurus" (meaning "Li Khole lizard") is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur (or rauisuchian[1]) from the Late Triassic of what is now South Africa. The name was coined by Ellenberger in 1972 (or 1970[2]), and the "type species" is "Likhoelesaurus ingens". It is named after the town where the fossils were found. The only fossils recovered have been teeth, from the late Carnian-early Norian-age Lower Elliot Formation.[3] If it was a dinosaur, it would have been a theropod.
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- Casting doubt on a dinosaurian identity, at the Dinosaur Mailing List
- "Dinogeorge" indicates a 1970 naming (this uncertainty is not uncommon for undescribed names)
- Formation, at the Dinosaur Mailing List
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