adapted to a riverine ecosystem that favored specializations for fishing

suggesting that it spent most of its time on dry land

using its claws to forage in the soil

Length 134mm

fixes on two figures emerging from the thicket of a clump of fallen trees

Melanorosaurus readi Scale:1:20 adapted to a riverine ecosystemMelanorosaurus readi was a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic , specifically the Norian stage (approximately 220210 million years ago) , that inhabited southern Gondwana , in what is now South Africa . It has traditionally been considered one of the largest and most robust prosauropods , and occupies a key position in the evolutionary transition between early bipedal sauropodomorphs and the large quadrupedal sauropods of the