Kangnasaurus
Name:
Kangnasaurus
(Kangna lizard).
Phonetic: Kang-nah-sore-us.
Named By: Sidney H. Haughton - 1915.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Dryosauroidea, Dryosauridae.
Species: K. coetzeei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Early Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Teeth and partial hind limbs.
Since its naming in 1915, the Kangnasaurus genus of dinosaur has often been treated as dubious, mostly because the holotype of this dinosaur is actually a tooth. Other hind limb remains were also attributed to the genus however, and these remains do actually seem to be distinct enough for some to consider Kangnasaurus to be a distinct genus of dinosaur.
Further reading
- On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. - Transactions of
the Royal Society of South Africa 5: 259–264. - Sidney H.
Haughton - 1915.
- A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus
coetzeei
Haughton, with a classification of the Ornithischia. - Annals of
the South African Museum 95 (8): 281–317. - Michael R.
Cooper - 1985.
- Callovosaurus leedsi, the earliest dryosaurid
dinosaur
(Ornithischia: Euornithopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of
England. by José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca, Xavier Pereda Suberbiola
& Peter M. Galton - 2007. In Horns and Beaks:
Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Bloomington and Indianapolis:
Indiana University Press. pp. 3–16. Kenneth Carpenter
/(ed).
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