Inosaurus
Named after In Tedreft, the locality in Niger where the holotype was collected; meaning "In Tedreft lizard"
Middle Jurassic stages
Inosaurus is a dubious genus of extinct theropod dinosaur from the "Continental intercalaire" of Niger, the type material from the Tiourarén Formation at In Tedreft, and possibly from the Late Cretaceous Baharija Formation of Egypt. The type, and only species, is I. tedreftensis.
Species
Inosaurus tedreftensis Lapparent, 1960 Nomen dubium
Type species
Named for In Tedreft, the locality in Niger where the holotype was collected.
- Holotype
- Not catalogued , Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (uncatalogued)
- Material
- Eighteen vertebrae and the proximal end of a left tibia, recovered together at In Tedreft and possibly from a single individual.
- Notes
- De Lapparent (1960) assigned no catalog number; the central Saharan collection was donated to the MNHN, Paris.
- Horizon
- Tiourarén Formation, Bathonian–Callovian, Middle Jurassic , 168.2–161.5 million years ago
- Locality
- In Tedreft, Agadez, Niger Lapparent (1960) puts the type material in the Continental Intercalaire and names no formation. The Tiourarén assignment follows Sereno and colleagues (2004), who place In Tedreft in that unit while describing another theropod from the site.
References
- Lapparent, A. F. D. (1960). Les Dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Saharal central [The dinosaurs of the "Continental Intercalaire" of the central Sahara]. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 39(88A): 1-57. lapparent1960a
- Sereno, P. C.; Wilson, J. A.; Conrad, J. L. (2004). New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid-Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271(1546): 1325-1330. The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2692 sereno2004a