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Genres valides

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Genres non valides

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GENRES VALIDES :

·     AEPISAURUS  Gervais, 1852 [nomen dubium]

·     AEPISAURUS elephantinus  Gervais, 1852 (type)

                     autres noms : Aepysaurus, Aepyosaurus, Aeposaurus, Oepysaurus

                 Longueur : 15 m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé inférieur (Aptien à Albien)

                 Localisation : France

                 Formation : Grès Vert (Vaucluse)

                 Restes :

                     MNHN 1868-242 [holotype]: humérus

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Macronaria - Titanosauria

                 Etymologie :    Aepisaurus "Reptile éléphant"

                                           elephanticus "semblable à l'éléphant"

Huene, en 1932, a rapporté français à la famille des Titanosauridae A. elephantinus à partir d'un humérus de l'Aptien à cause d'un certaine ressemblance avec un humérus de Laplatasaurus. Cet humérus est de petite taille et est assez ressemblant, mais il ressemble aussi à ceux de Camarasaurus et des brachiosaures. L'attribution à une famille devra attendre de nouvelles découvertes.

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·     AMPELOSAURUS  Le Loeuff, 1995

·     AMPELOSAURUS atacis  Le Loeuff, 1995 (type)

                 Longueur : 15 m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé supérieur (Maastrichtien)

                 Localisation : France

                 Formation :

                 Restes : squelette presque complet

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Macronaria - Titanosauria

                 Etymologie :    Ampelosaurus "Reptile du Vignoble"

                                           atacis "de l'Aude"

                 Références : LE LOEUFF (1995). Ampelosaurus atacis (nov. gen., nov. sp.), un nouveau Titanosauridae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) du Crétacé supérieur de la Haute Vallée de l'Aude (France). Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences; t.321; série IIa; p. 693 à 699.

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·     BOTHRIOSPONDYLUS  Owen, 1875 [nomen dubium?]

                     autres noms : Bathriospondylus, Bothrospondylus, Bothryospondylus

                 Longueur : 15 à 20 m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Jurassique moyen à supérieur (Bathonien à Kimmeridgien)

                 Localisation : France, Angleterre, Madagascar

                 Restes : vertèbres

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Macronaria

                 Etymologie :    Bothriospondylus "Vertèbres à sillons"

                 Musée :   Paris (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Institut de paléontologie)

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·     BRACHIOSAURIDAE NON BAPTISE Lapparent, 1943

=Bothriospondylus

                 Longueur :

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Jurassique supérieur (Oxfordien à Maastrichtien : -157,1 à -152,1 Ma)

                 Localisation : France

                 Formation : Damparis, Départment of Jura, Formation non baptisée, France

                 Restes :

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Brachiosauridae

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·     CETIOSAURUS  Owen, 1841

·     CETIOSAURUS humerocristatus  Hulke, 1874 [nomen dubium]

                 Longueur : ? m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Jurassique supérieur (Kimmeridgien à Tithonien)

                 Localisation : France, Angleterre, Portugal

                 Formation : Unité non baptisée (Département du Pas-de-Calais)

                 Restes : squelette presque complet

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Brachiosauridae Incertae sedis

                 Etymologie :    Cetiosaurus "Reptile-Baleine"

                                           humerocristatus "avec un humérus à crête"

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·     COMPSOGNATHUS  Wagner, 1859

·     COMPSOGNATHUS longipes  Wagner, 1859 (type)

                 Longueur : 1 à 1,4 m

                 Régime : Carnivore

                 Poids : 2,5 kg

                 Epoque : Jurassique supérieur (Kimmeridgien à Tithonien : - 154,7 à 145,6 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Allemagne

                 Formation : Calcaire lithographique (Canjuer, Var)

                 Restes : 2 squelettes

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Theropoda - Tetanurae - Coelurosauria

                 Etymologie :    Compsognathus "Machoîre délicate"

                                           longipes "à long pied"

                 Musée :   Paris (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Institut de paléontologie)

NOTE: Ostrom (1978) and Norman (1990) regarded the two species of Compsognathus as synonymous, but European workers (Fabre, de Broin, Ginsburg & Wenz, 1982; Taquet, 1985) have maintained their distinctness. The genus and its type species were first named and briefly described by Wagner in 1859, then more extensively described by him in 1861, the date usually given for these taxa.

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·     DACENTRURUS  Lucas, 1902

                        autre nom : Dacentrosaurus, Dacentrurosaurus, Dacentrus, Dicentrurus, Dacenturus

                        ancien nom : "Omosaurus"

·     DACENTRURUS armatus (Owen, 1875) Lucas, 1902 (type)

                 Longueur : 10 m ?

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Jurassique supérieur (Oxfordien à Kimmeridgien : - 157,1 à 152,1 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Angleterre, Portugal

                 Formation : Argiles d'Octeville (Seine-Maritime)

                 Restes : avant du crâne, sacra et fémurs.

                 Cladogramme : Ornithischia - Thyreophora - Stegosauria - Stegosauridae

                 Etymologie :    Dacentrurus "Lézard très pointu"

                                           armatus "armé"

                 Références : GALTON, P.M. (1991). Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus armatus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal. Geologica et Palaeontologica. 25: 299-327.

            Dacentrurus fut le premier stégosaure découvert. Il est assez primitif, ne possédant que des piques (pas de plaques dorsales).

NOTE: The above species is based on a dacentrurid femur separately named from but provisionally referred to the species Priodontognathus phillipsii by Seeley in 1893. See also Priodontognathus phillipsii.

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·     ERECTOPUS  von Huene, 1923

·     ERECTOPUS sauvagei  von Huene, 1923 (type)

                 Longueur :

                 Poids : 200 kg

                 Régime : Carnivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé inférieur (Albien : - 112 à 97 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Egypte, Portugal

                 Formation : Gault of the Bois de la Panthiere

                 Restes : Squelette fragmentaire

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Tetanurae -

                 Etymologie :    Erectopus "Pied érigé"

                                           sauvagei " "

NOTE: This genus was initially based on two teeth, vertebrae, a limb-bone fragment, and a partial skeleton from the Albian of France, described by Sauvage (1876, 1882) and made by him the type specimen of the species Megalosaurus superbus. Von Huene erected the genus Erectopus for these remains in 1923, basing its description (in 1926) primarily on the partial skeleton. He later (1932) declared that the teeth did not belong to Erectopus and removed them and the species Megalosaurus superbus from the genus as indeterminate, even though he had already used the name Erectopus superbus in earlier descriptions. The partial skeleton, however, he retained in the genus as the type specimen of the new type species Erectopus sauvagei. Although von Huene’s nomenclatural moves are questionable, most workers presently accept Erectopus sauvagei as the type species and Erectopus superbus as a referred species. The collection that includes the Erectopus sauvagei type specimen is apparently lost; all that remain are Sauvage’s original figures. Erectopus may be an abelisaurid or may belong in its own theropod family (von Huene, 1932; Molnar, 1990; Buffetaut, Cuny & Le Loeuff, 1991).

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·     GENUSAURUS  Accarie, Beaudoin, Dejax, Friés, Michard & Taquet, 1995

·     GENUSAURUS sisteronis  Accarie, Beaudoin, Dejax, Friés, Michard & Taquet, 1995 (type)

                 Longueur : 2 à 4 m

                 Régime : Carnivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé inférieur (Albien : - 112 à 97 Ma)

                 Localisation : France

                 Formation : (Alpes de Haute Provence)

                 Restes : ilium, extrémité du pubis, tibia, fibules, fémur, tarsus, vertèbres

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Theropoda - Neoceratosauria

                 Etymologie :    Genusaurus "Reptile genou"

                                           sisteronis "de Sisteron"

                 Description : ACCARIE, M., BEAUDOIN, B., DEJAX, J., FRIES,G., MICHARD, D.G. & TAQUET, P. (1995). Découverte d’un Dinosaure Theropode nouveau (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) dans l’Albien marin de Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) et extension au Crétacé inférier de la lignée cératosaurienne. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. 320 (IIa): 327-334.

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·     HYLAEOSAURUS  Mantell, 1833

                        autre nom : Hyaelosaurus

·     HYLAEOSAURUS armatus  Mantell, 1833 (type)

                 Longueur : 4 à 6 m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé inférieur (Valanginien à Barrémien : - 140,7 à 124,5 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Angleterre

                 Formation : Unité non baptisée (Ardennes)

                 Restes : 2 parties antérieures du crâne, éléments isolés

                 Cladogramme : Ornithischia - Thyreophora - Ankylosauria - Nodosauridae

                 Etymologie :    Hylaeosaurus "Reptile des bois"

                                           armatus "armé"

                 Références : PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA, J. (1993a). Hylaeosaurus, Polacanthus, and the systematics and stratigraphy of Wealden armoured dinosaurs. Geol. Mag. 130 (6): 767-781.

2 fragmentary postcranial skeletons with dermal isolated postcranial elements and armor plates.

Hylaeosaurus armatus is a moderate to large ( length 3 to 5 m) characterized by a scapular spine that slants obliquely across the entire scapular blade. This feature together with absence of a prespinous fossa makes H.armatus the most primitive known nodosaurid (Coombs,1971,1978; Sereno,1986). Hylaeosaurus consited of the front half of the skeleton embedded in a large piece of stone. The fossil was first described by Gideon Mantell and somewhat later by dr Richard Owen, and along with Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, was one of the founding members of Owen's Dinosauria. This fossil which is now in the Britisch museum (Natural History) has, unfortunately, never been prepared out of the stone in which its is embedded. Nevertheless, the parts which are exposed seem to show an animal with rows of large, curved plates running down its back.In an 1832 presentation before the Geological Society, Mantell originally explained the name as "forest lizard," alluding to Tilgate Forest where the first specimen was unearthed. However, in later published works he gave the meaning as "Wealden lizard." The British geologist Peter Martin invented the name "Wealden" in 1828 for the Early Cretaceous sands and clays found in the once-forested Weald ("wood") region of southern England.).

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·     HYPSELOSAURUS  Matheron, 1869

·     HYPSELOSAURUS priscus  Matheron, 1869 (type)

                 Longueur : 12 m

                 Poids : 10 t

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé supérieur (Maastrichtien : - 74 à 65 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Espagne

                 Formations :      Grès de Labarre, Ariège

                                             Grès de Saint-Chinian, Bouches-du-Rhône

                                             Couches de Rognac, Bouches-du-Rhône

                                             Grès à Reptiles, Var

                 Restes : Isolated postcranial remains of at least 10 individuals, œufs (?)

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Sauropodomorpha - Sauropoda - Titanosauridae

                 Etymologie :    Hypselosaurus " "

                                           priscus " "

                 Musée :   Paris (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Institut de paléontologie)

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·     IGUANODON  Mantell, 1825

·     IGUANODON bernissartensis Boulenger vide van Beneden, 1881 (type)

                 Longueur : 6 à 10 m

                 Poids : 4,5 à 5,5 t

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Crétacé inférieur (Valanginien à Albien : - 110,7 à -97 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Belgique, Angleterre, Allemagne, Espagne, Mongolie? & Tunisie?

                 Formation :        Wealden Beds, West Sussex, England

Isle of Wight, West Sussex, England

Wealden Province de la Hainaut, Belgium

Las Zabacheras Beds, Provincia de Teruel, Spain

Capas Rojas, Provincia de Teruel, Spain

Unité non baptisée, Cuenca, Spain

Wealden Beds Nordrhein-Westphalen, Germany

?, près de Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne)

                 Restes : une douzaine de squelettes (certains complets), dents

                 Cladogramme : Ornithischia - Ornithopoda - Iguanodontia

                 Etymologie :    Iguanodon "Dent d'Iguane"

                                           bernissartensis "de Bernissart"

                 Musées :   Paris (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Institut de paléontologie)

                                    Nancy (Musée des Sciences de la Terre)

                                    Chalons-en-Champagne (Musée municipal)

                                    Saint-Dizier (Musée municipal)

·      NOTE: In Opinion #1947 (March, 2000), the ICZN replaced Iguanodon anglicus with Iguanodon bernissartensis the type species of the genus Iguanodon.

·      This was the first dinosaur to be scientifically recognized. Along with Megalosaurus and Hylaeosaurus it was one of the first three creatures to be placed in Dinosauria.

Iguanodon was originally restored as a four-legged, rhinoceros-like beast. Later the "nasal horn" turned out to be a thumb spike. Its posture was changed to bipedal, since its hindlimbs were so much longer than its forelimbs. Nowadays it, like other large iguanodonts, is thought to have been facultatively bipedal, that is, primarily quadrupedal, but capable of moving on two legs as well.

Iguanodon as shown here may be a paraphyletic genus, with some species, such as I. bernissartensis, closer to hadrosauroids. As with most old genera, there is some taxonomic sorting to be done. The type species (I. anglicum) is based on very poor material.

I. hollingtonensis and I. atherfieldensis were rather gracile and long-spined, while I. dawsoni and I. bernissartensis were more robust and short-spined.

·      At least 26 associated skeletons and skulls, additonal partial skeletal remains, teeth Even though facultative bipedality seems to have been the norm among iguanodontids, several anatomical features indicate quadrupedal posture, in at least Iguanodon bernissartensis. In this animal, the forelimb girdle is robust, and the irregular intersternal ossification is developed between the sternals and coracoids. .... Juveniles of I. bernissartensis have forlimb proportions that differ from those of adults (cf. 60 percent of hindlimb length in juveniles vs 70 percent in adults)

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·     LEXOVISAURUS Hoffstetter, 1957

                        autre nom : Lexovsaurus

·     LEXOVISAURUS durobrivensis (Hulke, 1887) Hoffstetter, 1957 (type)

                  Longueur : 5 à 6 m

                 Régime : Herbivore

                 Epoque : Jurassique moyen à supérieur (Callovien à Kimmeridgien : - 161,3 à 152,1 Ma)

                 Localisation : France, Angleterre

                 Formation :      Marnes d'Argences Calvados, France

Kimmerdige Clay, Northamptonshire, Angleterre

Lower Oxford Clay Formation (Peterborough Member), Angleterre

                 Restes : 3 partial postcranial skeletons, 10 isolated elements, juvenile to adult.

                 Cladogramme : Ornithischia - Thyreophora - Stegosauria - Stegosauridae

                 Etymologie :    Lexovisaurus "Reptile de Lisieux"

                                           durobribensis " "

                 Musée : Nantes (Musée d'Histoire Naturelle)

            Omosaurus leedsi (Seeley,1901 partim) derived characters of Lexovisaurus include caudal centra in the proximal third of the tail with a large proximal chevron facet that unites with the distal one to give a V- shaped centrum in caudals 7 to 11, almost solid dorsal plate to sacrum, midcaudals with vertical neural spines, an ilium with a long, thin preacetabular process, a pubis with a rugose central thickening, and osteoderms that include several very large tall thin plates whose height is over twice the craniocaudal length. A shoulder spine is present.

            Plates formerly assigned to Lexovisaurus durobrivensis were actually the gill rakers of a large fish (Leedsichthys).

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·     LILIENSTERNUS  Welles, 1984

·     LILIENSTERNUS airelensis  Curry & Galton, 1993

                 Longueur : 7 m (3 à 5 m subadult)

                 Poids : 400 kg (130 kg subadult)

                 Régime : ivore

                 Epoque : Trias supérieur (Norien supérieur à Rhétien : - 154,7 à 145,6 Ma)

                 Localisation : France

                 Formation :

                 Restes : dents, vertèbres, ceinture pelvienne partielle

                 Cladogramme : Saurischia - Tetanurae - Coelurosauria

                 Etymologie :    Liliensternus " "

                                           airelensis " "

            The above species was originally referred to Halticosaurus sp. by Larsonneur & Lapparent (1966).

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