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Fabrosaurus

Fabrosaurus - Meaning: Fabre's lizard

Fabrosaurus (FAB-ro-sawr-us) meaning 'Fabre's lizard' in honour of Jean Henri Fabre was a herbivorous dinosaur that lived in Africa in the late Triassic and early Jurassic 208 - 196 million years ago. As the only fossil record is a partial jawbone with 3 teeth, Fabrosaurus is a nomen dubium (a name which cannot be attached certainly to any particular taxon, and is therefore dubious) and may in fact be Lesothosaurus. Fabrosaurids were among the earliest dinosaurs known.

Dinosaur Fabrosaurus

Fabrosaurus Characteristics

Fabrosaurus was around 3 feet (1 metre) in length and 1 feet (0.3 metre) in height, weighing approximately 15 kilograms (38 pounds). Little else is known from the small fossil record. This ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaur had small teeth in its jaws. It may have had a horn-covered beak. Fabrosaurus probably walked on 2 long legs and had 2 short arms. Fabrosaurus had a broad jaw with holes for new teeth to replace old ones.

Fabrosaurus was an herbivore, a plant-eater and would have ate roots and shoots. Fabrosaurus was closely related to Lesothosaurus and Scutellosaurus. Dinosaurs of the fabrosaurid family lived for at least 70 million years and were like the grazing animals of today. They would have been the gazelles and deer of the dinosaur world.


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.

FABROSAURUS CLASSIFICATION:
Kingdom:
Animalia (animals)
Phylum:
Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
Class:
Reptilia
Superorder:
Dinosauria
Order:
Ornithischia
Family:
Fabrosauridae
Genus:
Fabrosaurus
Species:
F. australis Ginsburg, 1964

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