Dysalotosaurus
| Dysalotosaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| D. lettowvorbecki skeleton in Berlin | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Family: | †Dryosauridae |
| Genus: | †Dysalotosaurus Virchow, 1919 |
| Species: | †D. lettowvorbecki
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| Binomial name | |
| Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki Virchow, 1919
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Dysalotosaurus was a small plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur that lived in forests around 150 million years ago.
Classification
[change | change source]Dysalotosaurus is a member of the family, the Dryosauridae, which were precursors (ancestors) of the Iguanodons, and lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Tom R. Hübner & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2010). "A juvenile skull of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), and implications for cranial ontogeny, phylogeny, and taxonomy in ornithopod dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160 (2): 366–396. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00620.x.
