Lurdusaurus
Field photograph to come
Lurdusaurus
DV-0445 · type species Lurdusaurus arenatus
- Lived
- 113 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 9 m (30 ft)
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Niger
- Named by
- Taquet and Russell 1999
Field notes
About Lurdusaurus
Lurdusaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 113 to 101 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Lurdusaurus, from Niger. Its fossils come from the Elrhaz Formation. It was named by Taquet and Russell in 1999.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
105 million years ago
To scale
How big was Lurdusaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Iguanodontoidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Taquet and D. A. Russell. 1999. A massively-constructed iguanodont from Gadoufaoua, Lower Cretaceous of Niger. Annales de Paléontologie 85(1):85-96