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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people (as of 2009, see table) in 61...
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Lesothosaurus
Lesothosaurus is an herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur. It was named by paleontologist Peter Galton in 1978, the name meaning "lizard from Lesotho". The genus is monotypic, having only one valid species, Lesothosaurus diagnosticus, within the genus....
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Paralititan
Paralititan (meaning "tidal giant") was a giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur genus discovered in coastal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The fossil represents the first tetrapod reported from the Bahariya Formation...
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Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus (pronounced /ˌbrækɪ.ɵˈsɔrəs/), meaning "arm lizard", from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning "arm" and sauros/σαυρος meaning "lizard", was a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period and possibly the Early...
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Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the mid-Albian to Turonian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 106 to 93.5 million years ago. This genus was first known from...
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Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus (meaning "pointed lizard"; pronounced /ˌkɛtrɵˈsɔrəs/ KEN-tro-SAWR-əs, from the Greek kentron/κεντρον, meaning "point" or "prickle", and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of...
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Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus (pronounced /ˌsɛrətɵˈsɔrəs/) meaning 'horned lizard', in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek κερας/κερατος, keras/keratos meaning 'horn' and σαυρος/sauros meaning 'lizard'), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic...
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Carcharodontosaurus
Carcharodontosaurus (pronounced /ˌkɑrkərɵˌdɒntɵˈsɔrəs/) was a gigantic carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 100 to 93 million years ago, during the late Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous Period. It was...
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Suchomimus
Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") is a genus of large spinosaurid dinosaur with a crocodile-like mouth that lived 112 million years ago, during the late Aptian stage of the Cretaceous period in Africa.
Unlike most giant theropods, Suchomimus had a very...
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Barosaurus
Barosaurus pronounced /ˌbærɵˈsɔrəs/ BARR-o-SAWR-əs; meaning 'heavy lizard' (Greek barys/βαρυς meaning 'heavy' and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard') was a giant, long-tailed, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur closely related to the more familiar...
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Valdosaurus
Valdosaurus ("Weald Lizard") is a genus of small, bipedal herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in Europe. It lived during the Early Cretaceous. The type species, V. canaliculatus, was described in 1975 by Peter...
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Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus (pronounced /ˌdraɪ.ɵˈsɔrəs/ DRY-o-SAWR-əs; meaning 'oak lizard', due to the vague oak shape of its cheek teeth (Greek δρυο/dryo meaning 'oak' and σαυρος/sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of an ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Late...
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Melanorosaurus
Melanorosaurus (meaning "Black Mountain Lizard", from the (Greek melano-/μελανο- "black", oros/ορος "mountain" + saurus/σαυρος "lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic period. A herbivore from South Africa, it had a...
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Abrictosaurus
Abrictosaurus (pronounced /əˌbrɪktəˈsɔrəs/; "wakeful lizard") is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period of what is now southern Africa. It was a small bipedal herbivore or omnivore, approximately 1.2 meters (4 feet)...
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Ouranosaurus
Ouranosaurus (meaning "brave (monitor) lizard") was an unusual iguanodont that lived during the early Cretaceous (late Aptian stage) about 110 million years ago in what is now Africa. Ouranosaurus measured about 7 meters long (24 ft) and weighed...
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Vulcanodon
Vulcanodon (meaning "volcano tooth") was a relatively small, early sauropod dinosaur genus from the Early Jurassic. It was about 6.5 meters (20 ft) long. Vulcanodon ate plants and lived in southern Africa. The type species, V. karibaensis, was...
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Aegyptosaurus
Aegyptosaurus (pronounced /iːˌdʒɪptɵˈsɔrəs/) meaning 'Egypt’s lizard', for the country in which it was discovered (Greek sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of dinosaur believed to have lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago,...
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Massospondylus
Massospondylus (pronounced /ˌmæsɵˈspɒndɨləs/, from Greek, μάσσων (massōn, "longer") and σπόνδυλος (spondylos, "vertebra") is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years...
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Afrovenator
Afrovenator (pronounced /ˌæfroʊvɨˈneɪtər/ "African hunter") is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the mid Jurassic Period of northern Africa. It was a bipedal predator, with a mouthful of sharp teeth and three claws on each hand. Judging...
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Fabrosaurus
Fabrosaurus (pronounced /ˌfæbrɵˈsɔrəs/ FAB-ro-SAWR-əs, meaning "Fabre's lizard" in honor of Jean Fabre, a French geologist and a colleague of Ginsburg on the expedition that collected the fossil in Basutoland, South Africa ; Greek sauros "lizard"))...
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Cetiosaurus
Cetiosaurus (SEET-ee-oh-sawr-us) meaning 'whale lizard', from the Greek cetus/κητος meaning 'sea monster' (later, 'whale') and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a sauropod dinosaur from the Mid to Late Jurassic Period (181-169 million years ago)...
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Bahariasaurus
Bahariasaurus (meaning "Bahariya lizard") is a genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaur. It is potentially synonymous with Deltadromeus, another predatory dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Africa. It was a huge theropod, in the same...
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Deltadromeus
Deltadromeus (meaning "delta runner") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa. This carnivore had long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size, suggesting that it was a swift runner. It lived in the late Cretaceous Period, about 95...
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Dicraeosaurus
Dicraeosaurus (Gr. dikraios "bifurcated, double-headed" + Gr. sauros "lizard") is a genus of small diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur. It was named for the spines on the back of the neck. The first fossil was described by paleontologist Werner Janensch...
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Heterodontosaurus
Heterodontosaurus (meaning "different toothed lizard") is a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur with prominent canine teeth which lived in the Early Jurassic of South Africa. It was similar to a hypsilophodont in shape, and ate plants, despite its...
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Elaphrosaurus
Elaphrosaurus (meaning "lightweight lizard") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Elaphrosaurus was probably a ceratosaur about 6 meters (20 ft) long. Suggestions that it is a late...
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Malawisaurus
Malawisaurus (meaning "Malawi lizard") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur (specifically a titanosaurid). It lived in what is now Africa, during the Early Cretaceous Period, the same time as its relatives Brachiosaurus and Gondwanatitan. It is one of...
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Rebbachisaurus
Rebbachisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the superfamily Diplodocoidea, up to 20 meters (68 ft) long, that lived in the Early Cretaceous period about 99 million years ago. This massive four-legged plant-eating animal had a small head, a...
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Janenschia
Janenschia (named after Werner Janensch) was a large sauropod from Late Jurassic Africa (155 million years ago), and therefore the earliest known titanosaur. Originally thought to be a species of the diplodocid Tornieria/Barosaurus (previously ...
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Tazoudasaurus
Tazoudasaurus is a genus of vulcanodontid sauropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic Toundoute overthrust beds located in the High Moroccan Atlas Mountains. The remains, consisting of a partial adult skeleton and associated partial juvenile...
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Nigersaurus
Nigersaurus (meaning "Niger lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous period, about 119 to 99 million years ago during the Aptian or Albian age. This dinosaur was described by Paul Sereno and colleagues in 1999....
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Algoasaurus
Algoasaurus (pronounced /ælˌɡoʊ.əˈsɔrəs/ "Algoa Bay reptile") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Tithonian-early Valanginian-age Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Upper Kirkwood Formation of Cape Province, South Africa. It was a neosauropod;...
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Antetonitrus
Antetonitrus (pronounced ant-EE-tohn-IET-rus; meaning "before the thunder") is the oldest known genus of sauropod dinosaur, living during the Late Triassic Period of southern Africa. It was a quadrupedal herbivore, like many of its later relatives,...
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Paranthodon
Paranthodon (Meaning "Beside Anthodon") was a dinosaur from the middle of the Cretaceous. It lived in what is now South Africa. It is classified as a stegosaur. The type species, Paranthodon africanus, comes from a partial skull first described as...
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Blikanasaurus
Blikanasaurus (meaning "Blikana lizard") was a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur found in Lower Elliot Formation rocks from the Late Triassic in what is now South Africa's Cape Province. Known from a left lower limb only, it has been variously...
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Tornieria
Tornieria ("Tornier's") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Late Jurassic Tanzania. It has an extremely convoluted taxonomic history.
In 1908, paleontologist Eberhard Fraas identified the remains of two sauropod species in Tanzania, which he named ...
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Atlasaurus
Atlasaurus (AT-luh-SAWR-us - Atlas - the Titan who held up the heavens, according to Greek mythology + Greek sauros meaning "lizard") was a moderately large genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian to Callovian stages) beds in...
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Euskelosaurus
Euskelosaurus ("good leg lizard") was a semi-bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a prosauropod that lived in the Late Triassic Period, in present-day South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. It was first described by Thomas Henry Huxley in...
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Thotobolosaurus
"Thotobolosaurus" is the name given to an as yet not formally described genus of dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian to Norian stage). "Thotobolosaurus" lived in what is present-day Lesotho, and is believed to have been a...
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Chebsaurus
Chebsaurus is a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous, cetiosaurid sauropod dinosaur, specifically a eusauropod. It lived in Algeria, in the Middle Jurassic Period. The type species, C. algeriensis, was named in 2005 by Farida Mahammed and is the most...
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Cristatusaurus
Cristatusaurus (meaning "Crested reptile") is an extinct genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa.
Its fossils were found at Gadoufaoua in Niger, Africa, in 1973. These fossils are...
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Tendaguria
Tendaguria (pronounced /ˌtɛndəˈɡʊəriə/ TEN-duh-GOO-ree-uh) (meaning "Tendaguru") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania.
It was a large sauropod from the Tendaguru fossil locality in Tanzania; based on two anterior dorsal...
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Kangnasaurus
Kangnasaurus (meaning "Farm Kangnas lizard") is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur found in ?Early Cretaceous rocks of South Africa. It is known from a tooth and possibly some postcranial remains and is usually considered dubious. It was...
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Lurdusaurus
Lurdusaurus (name meaning 'weighty lizard') is a genus of large ornithopod dinosaur which lived in the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 112 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Niger. The type species, Lurdusaurus...
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Stormbergia
Stormbergia is a genus of early ornithischian dinosaur known from the upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic: Hettangian-Sinemurian) of South Africa and Lesotho, named by Richard Butler in 2005. The generic name is based upon the 'Stormberg Series'...
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Geranosaurus
Geranosaurus (meaning "crane reptile") is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Its only known fossil is a jaw discovered in South Africa. Because of the few remains, it is considered a nomen dubium. It is classified...
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Megapnosaurus
Megapnosaurus (meaning "big dead lizard", from Greek μεγα = "big", 'απνοος = "not breathing", "dead", σαυρος = "lizard") was a dinosaur of the theropod family Coelophysidae, formerly called Syntarsus (named by Raath, 1969), living during the Early...
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Karongasaurus
Karongasaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a titanosaurid sauropod. Its fossils, consisting solely of part of a lower mandible and a few teeth, were found in Malawi. The type species, Karongasaurus...
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Sigilmassasaurus
Sigilmassasaurus (see-jil-MAH-sah-SAWR-us; "Sijilmassa lizard") is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the middle of the Cretaceous Period of northern Africa. Not much is known about this dinosaur, but it was almost definitely a bipedal...
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Nqwebasaurus
Nqwebasaurus (pronounced: nnkweb-ah-sawr-us. In fact, "nq" is a nasal postalveolar click [ŋǃ]) is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Tithonian to Valanginian (Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous). It was a basal coelurosaur related to...
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Lycorhinus
Lycorhinus is a genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic strata of the Elliot Formation located in the Cape Province, South Africa. The fossil remains consist in dentaries and maxillae hence the characters...
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Lanasaurus
Lanasaurus (LAY-na-SAWR-us - Meaning "wooly lizard") ia an extinct genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian ages). Found in Africa, the animal may have been 1.2 meters (4 feet) long. It was a heterodontosaurid...
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Likhoelesaurus
"Likhoelesaurus" (meaning "Li Khole lizard") is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur (or rauisuchian) from the Late Triassic of what is now South Africa. The name was coined by Ellenberger in 1972 (or 1970), and the "type...
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Spinostropheus
Spinostropheus is a genus of small ceratosaurian dinosaur that lived in the late Jurassic period of Niger. Once thought to be a species closely related to the abelisaurs (Sereno et al. 2002), subsequent studies have confirmed the original...
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Eucnemesaurus
Eucnemesaurus (pronounced /juːkˌniːmɨˈsɔrəs/; meaning "good tibia lizard", for its robust tibiae) is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur genus usually considered to be a synonym of Euskelosaurus. Recent study by Yates (2006), however, indicates that it...
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Gyposaurus
Gyposaurus (meaning "vulture lizard", referring to the outdated hypothesis that prosauropods were carnivores) is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic of South Africa and China. It is usually considered to represent...
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Plateosauravus
Plateosauravus ("grandfather of Plateosaurus") is a basal sauropodomorph of uncertain affinities from the late Triassic of South Africa. Sidney Haughton named Plateosaurus cullingworthi in 1924 from a partial skeleton, which Friedrich von Huene...
