Kholumolumo

Kholumolumo
Temporal range: Late Triassic, 210 Ma
Pes of K. ellenbergerorum (specimen NMQR1705)
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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]

  1. ^ a b 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. 39 (6): e1732996. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1732996. S2CID 218779841.