Name:
Isaberrysaura
(Isabels’ lizard).
Phonetic: I-sa-beh-re-sor-ah.
Named By: Leonardo Salgado, Jos� I.. Canudo,
Alberto C. Garrido, Miguel Moreno-Azanza, Leandro C.
A.Mart�nez, Rodolfo A. Coria & Jos� M. Gasca -
2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Stegosauria.
Species: I. mollensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Argentina - Los Molles
Formation.
Time period: Bajocian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial remains.
Isaberrysaura
is a genus of dinosaur that lived in South America during the middle
Jurassic. Initially described as a neoornithischian, later analysis
has suggested that Isaberrysaura is actually a very
primitive
stegosaur.
Although much detail about Isaberrysaura is
still
unknown, it is possible that Isaberrysaura may
have still been
bipedal despite being a stegosaur. The genus may have also lacked
the characteristic plates that are common in other stegosaurs that
are known from later in the Jurassic.
Further reading
- A new primitive Neornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of
Patagonia with gut contents. - Scientific Reports. 7: 42778.
- Leonardo Salgado, Jos� I.. Canudo, Alberto C. Garrido,
Miguel Moreno-Azanza, Leandro C. A.Mart�nez, Rodolfo A. Coria
& Jos� M. Gasca - 2017.
- Postcranial anatomy of Yinlong downsi
(Dinosauria: Ceratopsia)
from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of China and the phylogeny
of basal ornithischians. - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
16 (14): 1159–1187. - Fenglu Han, Catherine A.
Forster, Xing Xu & James M. Clark - 2018.