Dryosauridae

Dryosauridae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous, 163–115 mya
Dysalotosaurus – reconstructed skeleton in the Museum of Natural History in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Suborder:
Cerapoda
Infraorder:
Ornithopoda
Superfamily:
Iguanodontia
Family:
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.

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

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.