Ngwevu

Ngwevu (pronounced 'Ng-g'where-voo; directly from Xhosa 'ngwevu' and 'intloko' meaning "grey skull") is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. The type and only known specimen, BP/1/4779, was discovered in 1978 by James William Kitching. It had in 1990 and 2004 been regarded as an unusual specimen of the related Massospondylus, with a horizontally and vertically compressed skull,[2][3] but in 2019 the specimen was after restudy concluded to belong to a new distinct genus.[1] The genus is primarily distinguished by its skull being more robust than that of Massospondylus.

Ngwevu
Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Suborder: †Sauropodomorpha
Family: †Massospondylidae
Genus: †Ngwevu
Chapelle et al., 2019[1]
Species:
†N. intloko
Binomial name
†Ngwevu intloko
Chapelle et al., 2019[1]

References
  1. Chapelle, Kimberley E. J.; Barrett, Paul M.; Botha, Jennifer; Choiniere, Jonah N. (August 5, 2019). "Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus". PeerJ. 7: e7240. doi:10.7717/peerj.7240.
  2. Gow, Chris E. (1990). "Morphology and growth of the Massospondylus braincase (Dinosauria Prosauropoda)" (PDF). Palaeontologia Africana. 27: 59–75. hdl:10539/16145 – via CORE.
  3. Sues, Hans-Dieter; Reisz, Robert R.; Hinic, Sanja; Raath, Michael A. (30 December 2004). "On the skull of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Elliot and Clarens formations (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 73: 239–257 – via ResearchGate.
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