Elrhazosaurus
Name:
Elrhazosaurus
(Elhraz lizard, after the Elhraz Formation where the holotype
remians were recovered from).
Phonetic: El-raz-oh-sor-us.
Named By: P. M. Galton - 2009.
Synonyms: Valdosaurus nigeriensis.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosuria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia, Dryosauroidea,
Dryosauridae.
Species: E. nigeriensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Femur 13.1 centimetres long.
Known locations: Niger - Elrhaz Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Femur (upper leg/thigh
bone). Humerus (upper arm bone) has also been assigned to the
genus.
Originally described as a species of Valdosaurus, Elrhazosaurus is a genus of small dryosaurid ornithopod that lived in Africa during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Valdosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from
the Lower
Cretaceous of Europe and Africa. - G�obios 15 (2):
147–159. - P. M. Galton & P. Taquet - 1982.
- Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from
England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus,
"Camptosaurus",
"Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere.
- Revue de Pal�obiologie, Gen�ve 28(1):211-273. - P.
M. Galton - 2009.
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