Adratiklit boulahfa Adratiklit
"mountain lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Adratiklit 7 m (23 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Asia · Gondwana · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
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.