Genus
Valid Extinct

Adratiklit

Maidment et al. 2020

Adratiklit is an extinct genus of stegosaurian dinosaur that lived on the supercontinent Gondwana during the Middle Jurassic. The genus contains a single species, Adratiklit boulahfa. Its remains were found in the El Mers III Formation, near Boulemane in north Morocco.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Adratiklit
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Skeletal diagram of Adratiklit boulahfa showing all referred fossil material scaled to a single individual. All scale bars=1 m. Key  =Holotype (NHMUK PV R37366)  =Referred (NHMUK PV R37365)  =Referred (NHMUK PV R37007)  =Referred (NHMUK PV R37368)  =Referred (NHMUK PV R37367)  =Unknown References "North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity" "Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition" "A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa" "A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs" "Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America" "Preparation techniques applied to a stegosaurian dinosaur from Portugal" Dacentrurus skeletal by Dan Folkes Miragaia skeletal by Ashley Patch © SlvrHwk · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Parapredentata Unranked clade
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Saphornithischia Unranked clade
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Prionodontia Unranked clade
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Genasauria Unranked clade
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Thyreophora Unranked clade
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Thyreophoroidea Superfamily
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Eurypoda Unranked clade
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Stegosauria Unranked clade
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Stegosauridae Family
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Neostegosauria Unranked clade
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Dacentrurinae Subfamily
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Adratiklit Genus
Measurements
Length
6,6 m ⓘ
Adratiklit boulahfa
Mass
1 900 kg ⓘ
Adratiklit boulahfa
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
Geological formations
El Mers III
1
Temporal distribution
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Adratiklit boulahfa 168 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. C. R. Maidment, T. J. Raven, and D. Ouarhache, P. M. Barrett. 2020. North Africa's first stegosaur: implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity. Gondwana Research 77:82-97 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
S. C. R. Maidment, T. J. Raven, and D. Ouarhache, P. M. Barrett. 2020. North Africa's first stegosaur: implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity. Gondwana Research 77:82-97 DOI ↗