Abrictosaurus
Field photograph to come
Abrictosaurus
DV-0227
- Lived
- 201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians, Heterodontosauridae
- Found in
- Lesotho
- Named by
- Hopson 1975
Field notes
About Abrictosaurus
Abrictosaurus was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago. It belongs to the family Heterodontosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Abrictosaurus, from Lesotho. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by Hopson in 1975.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
195 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Heterodontosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. A. Hopson. 1975. On the generic separation of the ornithischian dinosaurs Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus from the Stormberg Series (Upper Triassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 71:302-305