Dysalotosaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dysalotosaurus ("uncatchable lizard") is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It was a dryosaurid iguanodontian, and its fossils have been found in late Kimmeridgian-age rocks (Late Jurassic) of the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region in Tanzania. The type and only species of the genus is D. lettowvorbecki. This species was named by Hans Virchow in 1919 in honor of the Imperial German Army Officer, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.[1] For much of the 20th century the species was referred to the related and approximately contemporary genus Dryosaurus, but newer studies reject this synonymy.[2][3]
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Dysalotosaurus | |
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D. lettowvorbecki skeleton in Berlin | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Superfamily: | †Dryosauroidea |
Family: | †Dryosauridae |
Genus: | †Dysalotosaurus Virchow, 1919 |
Species: | †D. lettowvorbecki |
Binomial name | |
†Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki Virchow, 1919 | |
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