Dryosauridae

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]

Dryosauridae
Temporal range: Middle JurassicLower Cretaceous, 163–115 mya
Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki skeleton.jpg
Dysalotosaurus – reconstructed skeleton in the Museum of Natural History in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde)
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Dryosauridae

There are 11 genera, of which Dryosaurus is the best known.

References

  1. David B. Norman. The Dinosauria (1990). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 510–533. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
  2. Norman, David B.. The Dinosauria (2004). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 413–437. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  3. Ruiz-Omeñaca, José Ignacio. Horns and beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod dinosaurs (2007). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 3–16. ISBN 978-0-253-34817-3.
  4. Galton, Peter M.. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England – Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie 28 (1) (2009). p. 211–273.