New basal sauropodomorph from Lesotho

[DD1991]

Hi,

 

If anyone is familiar with dinosaur names, the sauropodomorph informally known for a long time as "Thotobolosaurus" has been finally described and named in this paper:

 

Claire Peyre de Fabrègues; Ronan Allain (2020). Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum, gen. et sp. nov., a new early sauropodomorph from the lower Elliot Formation (Upper Triassic) of Maphutseng, Lesotho. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in press: e1732996. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1732996.

 

Kholumolumo is the latest addition to an increasing number of sauropodomorph taxa from the lower Elliot Formation of southern Africa that have been either revalidated or newly described in the past 15 years. Until the work of Adam Yates, it was thought that lower Elliot sauropodomorph diversity was represented by three genera, Euskelosaurus, Melanorosaurus, and Blikanasaurus. However, Yates recognized that Eucnemesaurus (long thought to have been a synonym of Euskelosaurus) is a close relative of Riojasaurus and not a synonym of Plateosauravus (which Yates revalidated for diagnostic remains synonymized with Euskelosaurus after judging the Euskelosaurus type material undiagnostic), and the renaming of 'Melanorosaurus' thabanensis as Meroktenos along with its provenance being lower Elliot rather than upper Elliot as stated in the original description by Gauffre (1993) makes clear than lower Elliot sauropodomorph diversity is way greater than previously thought.

 

That said, could anyone send me a copy of the above mentioned paper?

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