Dysalotosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0103Tendaguru Fm., Tanzania

Dysalotosaurus

DV-0103

Lived
152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods, Dryosauridae
Found in
Tanzania
Named by
Virchow 1919

Field notes

About Dysalotosaurus

Dysalotosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 149 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dryosauridae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dysalotosaurus, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Tendaguru Formation. It was named by Virchow in 1919.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

150 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Dryosauridae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Virchow. 1919. Atlas und Epistropheus bei den Schildkröten [Atlas and axis in the turtles]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1919(8):303-332