Lesothozavr ( lat. Lesothosaurus diagnosticus , "lizard from Lesotho") - a primitive bird - thunder dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (200-190 million years ago) Lesotho .
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| Lesothosaurus diagnosticus Galton, 1978 |
This genus is still poorly understood, but some details of its anatomy are already clear, which gives an idea of other fabrosaurids. The length of the animal did not exceed 1 meter. Lesotasavr moved on two legs . The front legs were shortened and adapted for grasping. The lesotaurus had five-fingered forelimbs and a relatively large head , which showed that the lotosaurus is a primitive dinosaur. Lesothozavr was one of the very first bird-cutting dinosaurs [1] . He was omnivorous , that is, he ate plants and insects. The forest lover did not have any special means of protection from predators, it was hidden from danger by running. Some scientists, because of the primitiveness of some features of the wood-loser, propose to isolate it as a special infra-order of proornitopods.
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Estimated relationship with factory and strombergia
In 2005, a skeleton was found without a two-meter-high ornithopod skull. The scientist who discovered this dinosaur called it strombergia . The skeleton was found in the same places and at the same depth as the skeleton of the lesotaur, which suggested their relationship. In 2010, some scientists suggested that the forest-tosaurius is just a young strombergia. The final decision has not yet been made due to the absence of the skull of Strombergia. It has also been suggested that the forest-cavern and the dinosaur fabrosaur found in 1964 are the same dinosaur. However, this assumption cannot be verified for the reason that only a fragment of a jaw with several teeth was found from the remains of a fabrozavra [2] .
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Literature
- Julia Shkolnik. Dinosaurs Lizards of the Mesozoic Era . - Liters, 2014. - ISBN 5457591859 .
- Sergey Tsekhansky. Big book "Why . " - Liters. - ISBN 5457626946 .