Ouranosaurus facts for kids
Quick facts for kids OuranosaurusTemporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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| Ouranosaurus nigeriensis Taquet, 1976
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Ouranosaurus (meaning "brave (monitor) lizard") was a sail-backed, plant-eating, iguanodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous period that lived at some point between 125 and 112 million years ago, in what is now Africa
It was about 24 feet (7 m) long and may have weighed about 4 tons.
Two almost complete Ouranosaurus fossils were found in the southern Sahara Desert, in northeast Niger, in 1966.
Spinosaurus, a large, sail-backed meat-eater, was one of its contemporaries in the hot, Cretaceous environment of north Africa.
Images for kids
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Location of the Gadoufaoua within Niger
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Skull
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Restoration of the head displaying "nasal protuberances"
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Mounted skeleton cast, ROM
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Dorsal vertebrae
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Restoration of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis based on skeletal diagrams and casts, fossils, and related species
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Paratype MSNVE 3714 in front view
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Suchomimus and Nigersaurus in the environment of the Elrhaz Formation
See also
In Spanish: Ouranosaurus nigeriensis para niños
