Family †Dryosauridae Phylum Chordata | Class Reptilia Suborder †Ornithopoda Species †D. lettowvorbecki Rank Genus | |
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Similar Callovosaurus, Echinodon, Elaphrosaurus, Barsboldia, Dyoplosaurus | ||
Dysalotosaurus i know dino podcast episode 20
Dysalotosaurus (meaning 'uncatchable lizard') is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It was a dryosaurid iguanodontian, and its fossils have been found in late Kimmeridgian age-rocks (Late Jurassic) of the Tendaguru Formation, Tanzania. The type species of Dysalotosaurus is D. lettowvorbecki. D lettowvorbecki was named by Rudolf Virchow in 1919 after the Imperial German Army Officer, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. It has long been referred to approximate contemporary Dryosaurus but newer studies reject this synonymy.
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Dysalotosaurus dinosaur of the day
Paleobiology
Dysalotosaurus was a precocial dinosaur, which experienced sexual maturity at ten years, had an indeterminate growth pattern, and maximum growth rates comparable to a large kangaroo.
Palaeopathology
In 2011 paleontologists Florian Witzmann and Oliver Hampe from the Museum für Naturkunde and colleagues discovered that deformations of some Dysalotosaurus bones were likely caused by a viral infection similar to Paget's disease of bone. This is the oldest evidence of viral infection known to science.
