Dysalotosaurus Dysalotosaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dysalotosaurus 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (152–151 Mya)
- Place
- Tanzania · Utah, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dryosauridae
Dysalotosaurus (“uncatchable lizard”) is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It was a dryosaurid iguanodontian, and its fossils have been found in late Kimmeridgian-age rocks (Late Jurassic) of the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region in Tanzania. The type and only species of the genus is D. lettowvorbecki. This species was named by Hans Virchow in 1919 in honor of the Imperial German Army Officer, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. For much of the 20th century the species was referred to the related and approximately contemporary genus Dryosaurus, but newer studies reject this synonymy.
What we know
- Named by Virchow, 1919.
- Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
- Fossils found in Tanzania and Utah, USA.