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Elrhazosaurus; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
	Femur of Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Ornithopoda
Infraorder:	Iguanodontia
Family:	Dryosauridae
Genus:	Elrhazosaurus; Galton, 2009
Species
	E. nigeriensis (Galton and Taquet, 1982 [originally Valdosaurus nigeriensis]) (type);

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Elrhazosaurus is a genus of basal iguanodontian dinosaur, known from isolated bones found in Lower Cretaceous rocks of Niger. It is based on MNHN GDF 332, a left thigh bone from the Elrhaz Formation of Agadez, Niger. This rock unit dates to the late Aptian stage, approximately 115 million years ago. The bone was initially classified as the type specimen of a new species of Valdosaurus (V. nigeriensis). V. nigeriensis was later given its own genus by Peter Galton, one of the original describers, on the grounds of differing morphology and geologic age versus the original species of Valdosaurus, V. canaliculatus.^[1] Elrhazosaurus is only known from thigh bones to date.^[2]

References

^ Galton, Peter M. (2009). "Notes on Neocomian (Late Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England – Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere" (pdf). Revue de Paléobiologie. 28 (1): 211–273.
^ Norman, David B. (2004). "Basal Iguanodontia". In Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.) (ed.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 413–437. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

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[PMG09-1] Galton, Peter M. (2009). "Notes on Neocomian (Late Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England – Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere" (pdf). Revue de Paléobiologie. 28 (1): 211–273.

[DBN04-2] Norman, David B. (2004). "Basal Iguanodontia". In Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.) (ed.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 413–437. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

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