Source: eomao! He does an amazing amount of art, including an ongoing webcomic that sometimes does dinosaurs! It is extremely well done, long, and intricate, so I recommend checking it out. Also, heās a saint, as heās not in my paleo-tumblr friend circle, but still sent me a message offering to do any dinosaur I needed the day of (usually this sort of favor is restricted to my friend-circle). I gave him warning for this one, but still, go check out his blog!
Name: Blikanasaurus cromptoniĀ
Name Meaning: Blikana Lizard
Described By: Galton & van HeerdenĀ
Classification:Ā Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Plateosauria, Massopoda, Sauropodiformes, Anchisauria, Sauropoda?, BlikanasauridaeĀ
Apparently Blikanasaurus has its own clade... there arenāt any other genera in Blikanasauridae. At any rate, Blikanasaurus was a sauropodomorph very closely related to sauropods, if not a true sauropod itself. It is only known from a single portion of the left lower hind leg; still, thereās a lot we can glean from this. It was probably quadrupedal, and definitely a more derived sauropodomorph; however, whether or not it is a true sauropod is unclear. It was found in the - you guessed it - Lower Elliot Formation of South Africa, near Eastern Cape Province. It lived in the Late Traissic, probably sometime between 228 and 206 million years ago (in the Norian age) like other genera from that formation; however, this is still fairly uncertain. It was an herbivore, like all later members of the Sauropodomorph group.Ā
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikanasaurus
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/b/blikanasaurus.html
Shout out goes toĀ bookoisseur!
