Ledumahadi mafube
"giant thunderclap"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ledumahadi 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (200–195 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · South Africa
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Ledumahadi (meaning “giant thunderclap” in Sesotho language) is a genus of lessemsaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation in Free State Province, South Africa. The type and only species is L. mafube, known from a singular incomplete postcranial specimen. A quadruped, it was one of the first giant sauropodomorphs, reaching a weight of around 12 tonne, despite not having evolved columnar limbs like its later huge relatives.
What we know
- Named by McPhee et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Africa and South Africa.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ledumahadi — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.