Family
Valid Extinct

Fabrosauridae

Galton 1972

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
16
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Fabrosauridae
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Triceratops Specimen (nicknamed "Lane") at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. © Source: AgsftwDerivative: User:MathKnight · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Fabrosauridae Family
Fossil sites 16 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
6
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
🇺🇸 United States
2
🇿🇦 South Africa
2
🇱🇸 Lesotho
1
Geological formations
Shishugou
4
Elliot
3
Forest Marble
3
Chinle
1
Chipping Norton Limestone
1
Sharp's Hill
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
4
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
2
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
5
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
3
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
P. M. Galton. 1972. Classification and evolution of ornithopod dinosaurs. Nature 239:464-466 DOI ↗
Bibliography (8)
S. E. Evans and A. R. Milner. 1994. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles. In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press
Z. Dong. 1989. On a small ornithopod (Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis sp. nov.) from Kelamaili, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(2):140-146
A. B. Busbey III and C. E. Gow. 1984. A new protosuchian crocodile from the Upper Triassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 25:127-149
A. P. Santa Luca. 1984. Postcranial remains of Fabrosauridae (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from the Stormberg of southern Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 25:151-180
Z. Dong and Z. Tang. 1983. New ornithopod genus from the Middle Jurassic of Sichuan Basin, China . Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21(2):168-171
Z. Dong, S. Zhou, and H. Zhang. 1983. [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan]. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162(23):1-136
D. R. Prothero. 1981. New Jurassic mammals from Como Bluff, Wyoming, and the interrelationships of non-tribosphenic Theria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 167(5):277-326
L. L. Jacobs and P. A. Murry. 1980. The vertebrate community of the Triassic Chinle Formation near St. Johns, Arizona. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert