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Dryosauridae
Taxonomy
Dryosauridae was named by Milner and Norman (1984).
It was assigned to Proganosauria by Stefano (1903); to Dryosauroidea by Norman (1984); to Ornithopoda by Molnar (1992); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Jouve (2005); to Ornithopoda by Milner and Norman (1984), Carroll (1988), Sues and Norman (1990), Chure et al. (2006); to Iguanodontia by Benton (1990), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007), Galton (2007); to Iguanodontia by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Escaso et al. (2014); and to Dryomorpha by Coria and Salgado (1996), Buchholz (2002), Coria and Calvo (2002), Norman (2004), Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), McDonald (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Dieudonné et al. (2020), Verdú et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Proganosauria by Stefano (1903); to Dryosauroidea by Norman (1984); to Ornithopoda by Molnar (1992); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Jouve (2005); to Ornithopoda by Milner and Norman (1984), Carroll (1988), Sues and Norman (1990), Chure et al. (2006); to Iguanodontia by Benton (1990), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007), Galton (2007); to Iguanodontia by Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Han et al. (2012), Escaso et al. (2014); and to Dryomorpha by Coria and Salgado (1996), Buchholz (2002), Coria and Calvo (2002), Norman (2004), Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), McDonald (2012), Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Dieudonné et al. (2020), Verdú et al. (2021).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1903 | Dryosauridae Stefano p. 54 |
| 1984 | Dryosauridae Milner and Norman |
| 1984 | Dryosauridae Norman pp. 160-161 fig. 2 |
| 1988 | Dryosauridae Carroll |
| 1990 | Dryosauridae Benton p. 19 |
| 1990 | Dryosauridae Sues and Norman p. 500 |
| 1992 | Dryosauridae Molnar p. 266 |
| 1996 | Dryosauridae Coria and Salgado p. 454 fig. 13 |
| 1997 | Dryosauridae Sereno p. 440 fig. 2 |
| 1998 | Dryosauridae Sereno p. 61 |
| 1999 | Dryosauridae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
| 2002 | Dryosauridae Buchholz p. 22 |
| 2002 | Dryosauridae Coria and Calvo p. 508 fig. 9 |
| 2004 | Dryosauridae Norman p. 414 |
| 2005 | Dryosauridae Jouve p. 324 |
| 2006 | Dryosauridae Chure et al. p. 237 |
| 2007 | Dryosauridae Galton p. 38 |
| 2007 | Dryosauridae Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 5 |
| 2007 | Dryosauridae Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 203 |
| 2008 | Dryosauridae Butler et al. p. 21 figs. 2-4 |
| 2009 | Dryosauridae Galton p. 215 |
| 2010 | Dryosauridae McDonald et al. p. 33 fig. 39 |
| 2012 | Dryosauridae Han et al. p. 1391 fig. 14 |
| 2012 | Dryosauridae McDonald p. 2 |
| 2014 | Dryosauridae Escaso et al. p. 1103 |
| 2018 | Dryosauridae Madzia et al. p. 973 fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Dryosauridae Herne et al. p. 574 fig. 25 |
| 2020 | Dryosauridae Dieudonné et al. |
| 2021 | Dryosauridae Verdú et al. p. 10 fig. 9 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Dryosauridae Milner and Norman 1984
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G. †Dryosaurus Marsh 1894
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†Dryosaurus altus Marsh 1878
†Dryosaurus elderae Carpenter and Galton 2018
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Peczkis 1995, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Callovian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 165.30000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Callovian | United Kingdom (England) | Camptosaurus leedsi (59128) | |
| Late/Upper Jurassic | China (Yunnan) | Dinehichnus sp. (229403) | |
| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | Dryosaurus sp. (182492) | |
| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | Poland (Swietokrzyskie) | Dinehichnus sp. (83230) | |
| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | USA (Colorado) | Dryosaurus sp. (48156) | |
| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | France (Normandie) | Dryosaurus sp. (35968) | |
| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian - Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Centro) | Dinehichnus sp. (225903 225905) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Leiria) | Dinehichnus sp. (103083) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Centro) | Dinehichnus sp. (219830) | |
| Kimmeridgian | USA (Wyoming) | Dryosauridae indet. (38884) | |
| Kimmeridgian | USA (Colorado) | Dinehichnus socialis (123526) Dinehichnus sp. (48855) | |
| Kimmeridgian | USA (Utah) | Dinehichnus socialis (56321) Dryosaurus sp. (231583) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Dryosauridae indet. (192748 230770) Dryosaurus sp. (55487 231551) Laosaurus altus (39253 39344) Laosaurus sp. (22648 39340) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Utah) | Dryosaurus sp. (58514 220417) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | Dryosaurus altus (25141) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Spain (Aragón) | Valdosaurus sp. (58764) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Tanzania (Lindi) | Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (47146) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Centro) | Dryosauridae indet. (91397 235263) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Dryosaurus sp. (47065 49577) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Portugal (Lisbon) | Dryosauridae indet. (163144) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Portugal (Centro) | Dryosauridae indet. (38680) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | Dryosaurus sp. (45975 53022) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Portugal (Lisboa) | Dryosauridae indet. (163145) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | Dryosaurus altus (231621) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | USA (Utah) | Dryosaurus altus, Laosaurus gracilis (21852) | |
| Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian | Portugal (Centro) | Dinehichnus sp. (219832) | |
| Tithonian | USA (Utah) | Dryosaurus sp. (22711 57913) | |
| Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | Dryosaurus altus (53041) Dryosaurus sp. (48161) | |
| Late/Upper Valanginian | United Kingdom (England) | Hypsilophodon foxii (52258) Iguanodon sp. (222518) Valdosaurus sp. (222519) | |
| Hauterivian | United Kingdom (England) | Valdosaurus sp. (222353) | |
| Late/Upper Hauterivian - Barremian | United Kingdom (England) | Dryosaurus canaliculatus (75745) | |
| Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian | United Kingdom (England) | Valdosaurus canaliculatus (48328) Valdosaurus sp. (55518) | |
| Barremian | United Kingdom (England) | Valdosaurus canaliculatus (235262 239755) | |
| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain (Aragón) | Valdosaurus sp. (36368) | |
| Late/Upper Barremian | United Kingdom (England) | Dryosaurus canaliculatus (26791) | |
| Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | Spain (Castilla y Leon) | Valdosaurus sp. (218876) | |
| Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | United Kingdom (England) | Dryosauridae indet. (25428) | |
| Aptian | Niger (Agadez) | Ornithopoda indet. (37200) | |
| Aptian | Spain (La Rioja) | Ornithopoda indet. (84712) | |
| Aptian - Early/Lower Albian | Spain (La Rioja) | Hypsilophodon sp. (96479) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | New Zealand (Hawke's Bay) | Ornithopoda indet. (27887) |