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Length: 3 m

Height: 1 m

Weight: 35 kg

Diet: herbivore

Time: Cretaceous (140 MYA)

Location: Europe, Africa

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Dinosaur stuff

Valdosaurus (pronounced: Val-doe-Saw-rus; meaning “Weald Lizard”) is a genus of small, bipedal herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight, elsewhere in Europe, and Africa. It lived during the Early Cretaceous. The type species, V. canaliculatus, was described in 1975 by Peter Galton as a species of Dryosaurus, but he later gave it its own genus. A second species, V. nigeriensis is known from Niger, but is based on partial fossils. Valdosaurus was an iguanodont.

Valdosaurus was a small plant-eater related to Iguanodon. It is an interesting dinosaur because it has been found both in England and in the middle of Africa. This tells scientists that dinosaurs probably migrated between these two countries over great distances, most likely in large herds. Additionally, this discovery supports the theory that a land bridge connected Africa to Europe during part of the Cretaceous.

Identified incorrectly for several years, Valdosaurus was originally thought to be a Hypsilophodon and then a Dryosaurus.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Sauropsida

Superorder: Dinosauria

Order: Ornithischia

Suborder: Ornithopoda

Infraorder: Iguanodontia

Family: Dryosauridae

Genus: Valdosaurus Galton, 1977

Species:

V. canaliculatus (Galton, 1975 [originally Dryosaurus])

V. nigeriensis Galton and Taquet, 1982