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bird-hipped dinosaur
Geranosaurus
Say it like this: “juh-RAN-o-SOR-us”
Geranosaurus atavus
Geranosaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic. Bones have been found in South Africa.
- When
- Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian) · roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1911 · Broom, R.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.2 m · 4 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- South Africa · Clarens
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Heterodontosauridae
The story in short
The genus Geranosaurus dates to 1911, the year R. Broom described it.
It lived in the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian · Pliensbachian), roughly 199.5 to 184.2 million years ago. Finds come from South Africa, including the Clarens Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Geranosaurus at a length near 1.2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Heterodontosauridae, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Echinodon
Echinodon becklesii
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) · roughly 143.1 to 137.1 million years ago
Fruitadens
Fruitadens haagarorum
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) · roughly 154.8 to 149.2 million years ago
Tianyulong
Tianyulong confuciusi
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Callovian · Oxfordian) · roughly 165.3 to 154.8 million years ago