Melanorosaurus - Meaning : Black Mountain lizard

Melanorosaurus, (pronounced me-lan-or-oh-sore-us) "Black Mountain Lizard", was a 12 metre long sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic period.

A herbivore from South Africa, it had a great body and sturdy limbs, suggesting it moved about on all fours. Limb bones were massive and weighty, like sauropod limb bones. But, like most sauropods vertebrae, its spinal bones had hollows that helped reduce weight. Unfortunately, a skull has not been found to date.