Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki Virchow 1919 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Dryosauridae

Alternative combination: Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki

Full reference: H. Virchow. 1919. Atlas und Epistropheus bei den Schildkröten [Atlas and axis in the turtles]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1919(8):303-332

Belongs to Dysalotosaurus according to M. C. Herne et al. 2018

See also Andrzejewski et al. 2019, Becerra et al. 2016, Bell et al. 2019, Bell et al. 2018, Bonaparte 1986, Butler et al. 2008, Carpenter 1994, Carpenter and Galton 2018, Casanovas et al. 1999, Charig 1967, Chure et al. 1994, Cooper 1985, Dalla Vecchia 2020, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Farke et al. 2013, Fischer 1970, Galton 1972, Galton 1975, Galton 1980, Galton 1981, Galton 1983, Galton 2007, Galton 2009, Galton and Jensen 1973, Herne et al. 2019, Hübner and Rauhut 2007, Ibiricu et al. 2019, Janensch 1955, Jurcsak and Popa 1979, Kuhn 1964, Le Loeuff et al. 2012, Madsen and Miller 1979, Madzia et al. 2018, Mateus 2006, McDonald et al. 2010, Molnar 1980, Naish and Martill 2001, Norman 2004, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006, Pompeckj 1920, Rauhut 2011, Rich et al. 2010, Rich et al. 1988, Rotatori et al. 2022, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2007, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2007, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010, Ryan 1997, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2021, Schwarz et al. 2023, Sues and Norman 1990, Swinton 1936, Taquet 1975, Taquet 1984, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1975, Virchow 1919, Virchow 1921, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 and Zheng et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: HMN. Its type locality is Tendaguru quarry Ig, Kindope, which is in a Kimmeridgian channel lag siltstone in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Tendaguru quarry Ig, Kindope

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