| Gigantoscelus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 199–189 Ma
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Genus: | †Gigantoscelus |
| Species: |
†G. molengraaffi
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| †Gigantoscelus molengraaffi van Hoepen, 1916 | |
Gigantoscelus ("giant shin") is a dubious genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa.
It was first described by van Hoepen in 1916 on the basis of TrM 65, a distal femur from the Bushveld Sandstone Formation of South Africa.[1] It was later synonymized with Euskelosaurus by van Heerden (1979),[2] but was subsequently treated as a nomen dubium in the 2nd edition of the Dinosauria.[3]
The type horizon of Gigantoscelus, the Bushveld Sandstone, was thought to be Late Triassic, but is now considered Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) in age.[4]
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