Dryosauridae
| Dryosauridae Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous, 163–115 mya
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| Dysalotosaurus – reconstructed skeleton in the Museum of Natural History in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde) | |
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| Family: | Dryosauridae
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Dryosaurids were primitive iguanodonts from the Middle Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous. They are found in what is now Africa, Europe, and North America.[1][2][3][4]
There are 11 genera, of which Dryosaurus is the best known.
References[change]
- ↑ David B. Norman; David B. Weishampel (1990). "Iguanodontidae and related ornithopods". In Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The Dinosauria. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 510–533. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
- ↑ Norman, David B. (2004). "Basal Iguanodontia". In Dodson P.; Osmólska H (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 413–437. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ↑ Ruiz-Omeñaca, José Ignacio; Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier; Galton, Peter M. (2007). "Callovosaurus leedsi, the earliest dryosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England". In Carpenter, Kenneth (ed.). Horns and beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod dinosaurs. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 3–16. ISBN 978-0-253-34817-3.
- ↑ Galton, Peter M. (2009). "Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England – Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere" (PDF). Revue de Paléobiologie. 28 (1): 211–273.
