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bird-hipped dinosaur · Doubtful name
Fabrosaurus
Say it like this: “FAB-rə-SOR-əs”
Fabrosaurus australis
Fabrosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in Lesotho.
- When
- Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian) · roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 1964 · Ginsburg, L.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.5 m · 5 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Lesotho · Elliot
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Ornithischia
The story in short
The genus Fabrosaurus dates to 1964, the year L. Ginsburg described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Jurassic (Hettangian · Sinemurian), roughly 201.4 to 192.9 million years ago. Finds come from Lesotho, including the Elliot Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Fabrosaurus at a length near 1.5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Ornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Alocodon
Alocodon kuehnei
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago
Amtosaurus
Amtosaurus magnus
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian · Turonian) · roughly 100.5 to 89.8 million years ago
Archaeocursor
Archaeocursor asiaticus
Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian) · roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago