In Depth
Based upon the description of a partial skull, the validity of the Stormbergia genus has been questioned as some have proposed that the skull may represent the fully grown adult form of Lesothosaurus. If this is correct then Stormbergia would actually be a synonym to Lesothosaurus.
Further Reading
- The ‘fabrosaurid’ ornithischian dinosaurs of the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa and Lesotho - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 175-218 - R. J. Butler - 2005. - Ontogenetic change and adult body size of the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus: implications for basal ornithischian taxonomy - Gondwana Research. online 17 (1): 171 - F. Knoll, K. Padian & A. de Ricqles - 2009.
