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 Jos� Ignacio Ruiz-Ome�aca,‭ ‬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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