Sefapanosaurus.-Dinosaur Discovered in Africa is a New Species of Sauropodomorph

Researchers may have discovered a new species of dinosaur. They've uncovered a 200-million-year old specimen that they've now named Sefapanosaurus. The fossil itself was discovered in the late 1930s. When researchers took a closer look a few years ago, they thought it was the remains of another South African dinosaur, Aardonyx. Recently, though, scientists took a closer look and found that it was a completely new dinosaur. One of the most distinctive features on the dinosaur is that one of its ankle bones, the astragalus, is shaped like a cross. "The discovery of Sefapanosaurus shows that there were several of these transitional early sauropodomorph dinosaurs roaming around southern Africa about 200 million years ago," said Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, co-author of the new study, in a news release. The animal reveals that there was remarkably high diversity among herbivorous dinosaurs in Africa and South America about 190 million years ago, when the southern hemisphere continents were a single supercontinent known as Godwana.-READ MORE -http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/27102/20150625/dinosaur-discovered-africa-new-species-sauropodomorph.htm-