Fossil 'Hidden in Plain Sight' Named New South African Dinosaur

The "grey skull" fossil, which has been in the collections of the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute since 1978, has been identified not only as a new species of sauropodomorph, but an entirely new genus, according to University of the Witwatersrand PhD student Kimberley Chapelle.

Ngwevu skull in collection.

Micro-CT scan of Ngwevu intloko skull.

The “Grey Skull” specimen turned out to belong to an entirely new dinosaur species and genus.

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