Elrhazosaurus
Field photograph to come
Elrhazosaurus
DV-0684
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Dryosauridae
- Found in
- Niger
- Named by
- Galton 2009
Field notes
About Elrhazosaurus
Elrhazosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dryosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Elrhazosaurus, from Niger. Its fossils come from the Elrhaz Formation. It was named by Galton in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dryosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273