Dinosaur Vault

Eocursor

Field photograph to come

DV-0626Elliot Fm., South Africa

Eocursor

DV-0626

Lived
201 to 193 million years ago, Early Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Early ornithischians
Found in
South Africa
Named by
Butler et al. 2007

Field notes

About Eocursor

Eocursor was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 193 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Eocursor, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Elliot Formation. It was named by Butler et al. in 2007.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

195 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. J. Butler, R. M. H. Smith, and D. B. Norman. 2007. A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, and the early evolution and diversification of Ornithischia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:2041-2046