Kholumolumo Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Pes of K. ellenbergerorum (specimen NMQR1705) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Massopoda |
Genus: | †Kholumolumo Peyre de Fabrègues & Allain, 2020 |
Type species | |
†Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum Peyre de Fabrègues & Allain, 2020
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Kholumolumo (referring to a type of dragon the local Basuto associate with dinosaurs), formerly "Kholumolumosaurus" or "Thotobolosaurus", is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur, which was closely related to Sarahsaurus,[1] from the lower Elliot Formation of Maphutseng, Lesotho. The type species, Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum was formally described in 2020.[1]