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Fabrosaurus

 

Fabrosaurus - Meaning:Fabre's lizard 
   
Fabrosaurus (FAB-ro-sawr-us) meaning "Fabre's lizard" in honor of Jean Henri Fabre was a herbivorous dinosaur of the late Triassic and early Jurassic (208 - 196 million years ago). As the only fossil record is a partial jawbone with three teeth, Fabrosaurus is a nomen dubium and may in fact be Lesothosaurus.

Fabrosaurus was around 1 metres (3 ft) long and 0.3 metres (1 ft) high, weighing approximately 15 kg (38 lb). Little else can be inferred from the small fossil record.

It was named after Jean Henri Fabre in 1964, by paleontologist Leonard Ginsburg. The type species, F. australis, is named for the location of the fossils in Lesotho, South Africa.

 

 

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