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Euskelosaurus

General Description[]

Euskelosaurus ("good leg lizard") was a semi bidepal dinosaur it lived in The Late Triassic Period in the present day South Africa,Lesotho and Zimbawe,It was a Sauropod. It was first described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1866 as Euskelesaurus brownii based on holotype BMNH R1625,limb and spinal bones found by Alfred Brown in 1863. The name was in 1902 emended by Friedrich Von Huene into Euskelosaurus. It may actually be the same animal as Plateosaurus also found in southern Africa.

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