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Stegosauridae

Adratiklit boulahfa

"mountain lizard"

Generic stegosaur body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Adratiklit 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic stegosaur body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Adratiklit
Length
7 m (23 ft)
Period
Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
Place
Africa · Asia · Gondwana · Argentina
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Stegosauridae Dinosauria Ornithischia Thyreophora Stegosauria Stegosaurus and close relatives.

Adratiklit (meaning “mountain lizard”) is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur that lived on the supercontinent Gondwana during the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian age). The genus contains a single species, Adratiklit boulahfa. Its remains were found in the El Mers III Formation, near Boulemane in north Morocco.

Eurypodan dinosaurs, in particular stegosaurs, were diverse and abundant in Laurasia (nowadays the northern continents) during the Jurassic, but their remains are extremely rare in deposits of Gondwana, (nowadays the southern continents). Nevertheless, the existence of fragmentary remains and trackways in the deposits of Gondwana indicate the presence of eurypodan taxa there.

What we know

  • Named by Maidment et al., 2020.
  • Body length estimated at about 7 m.
  • Fossils found in Africa and Asia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Adratiklit — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.