Dryosaurus

Description

Dryosaurus (dryosaure en français) est un genre éteint de dinosaures de l'infra-ordre des Iguanodontia de la famille des Dryosauridae ayant vécu au Jurassique supérieur (étages Kimméridgien et Tithonien), il y a environ entre −157 et −145 Ma (millions d'années).

Information(s)

Source: The Paleobiology Database

Attibution: Marsh 1894⁹⁰⁹⁷
Statut: Valide
Nom commun: Reptile des chênes
Longueur (en m): 10 to < 100
Largeur (en m): 1.0 to < 10
Hauteur (en m): 1.0 to < 10
Poids (en m): de 100 kg à 300 kg
Environnement de découverte: terrestrial
Mode de vie: terrestrial
Mode de locomotion: actively mobile
Vision: ?
Alimentation: herbivore
Mode de reprodution: oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile
Classification: Dryosauridae >> Dryomorpha >> Iguanodontia >> Clypeodonta >> Ornithopoda >> Cerapoda >> Genasauria >> Ornithischia >> Dinosauria
Période: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian (de -154.80 Ma à -143.10 Ma)

Espèce(s):
- Dryosaurus altus (Valide)⁷⁸⁰³
- Dryosaurus elderae (Valide)⁷⁵⁸⁵⁶
- Dryosaurus grandis (nomen dubium, voir Ornithomimosauria)¹⁴¹⁷³

Specimen(s):

Dryosaurus altus: YPM 1876 - fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus
Dryosaurus altus: CM 1949 - tibia (right) , femur (right) , femur
Dryosaurus altus: AMNH 834 - femur (right) , humerus (left)
Dryosaurus altus: YPM 1876 - fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus
Dryosaurus altus: CM 1949 - tibia (right) , femur (right) , femur
Dryosaurus altus: YPM 1876 - fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus
Dryosaurus altus: AMNH 834 - femur (right) , humerus (left)
Dryosaurus altus: YPM 1876 - fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus
Dryosaurus elderae: CM 11340 - humerus (right)
Dryosaurus elderae: CM 3392 - humerus (right)
Dryosaurus altus: CM 1949 - tibia (right) , femur (right) , femur
Dryosaurus altus: AM 834 - femur
Dryosaurus canaliculatus recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus: holotype BM R185 - femur
Laosaurus altus recombined as Dryosaurus altus: holotype YPM 1876 - fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus
Détail des Spécimens

Autre(s) Taxon(s) trouvés dans la litterature:
- Dryosaurus
- Dryosaurus canaliculatus n. recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus
- Dryosaurus canaliculatus recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus
- Dryosaurus elderae
- Laosaurus altus recombined as Dryosaurus altus
- Laosaurus altus n. recombined as Dryosaurus altus
Découverte(s): 27 occcurrences
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- Allemagne
  - Nordrhein-Westfalen
    - ?
      - Formation Süntel
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁷⁶⁴⁵²
- France
  - Normandie
    - Seine-Maritime
      - Formation Marnes de Bléville
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁹⁶⁶²
- Royaume-Uni
  - England
    - Isle of Wight
      - Formation Wessex
        Valdosaurus canaliculatus identifié comme ? Dryosaurus canaliculatus n. sp.: BM R185: femur ²⁵⁵⁹⁹
    - Sussex
      - Formation Weald Clay
        Valdosaurus canaliculatus identifié comme ? Dryosaurus canaliculatus: ? ²⁵⁵⁹⁹
- Portugal
  - Centro
    - Leiria
      - Formation Lourinhã
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁴⁴³¹²
    - Lisboa
      - Formation Lourinhã
        Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis: ? ⁵⁵⁴³⁰
- États-Unis
  - Colorado
    - Fremont
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹²⁸⁹³
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹²⁸⁹³
    - Mesa
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹⁴³³²
        Dryosaurus altus: ? ¹³²⁸¹
    - Moffat
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus altus: ? ⁴⁶²⁰⁷
    - Montrose
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus altus: ? ²⁴³⁰³
        Dryosaurus altus: ? ³¹⁵⁶⁶
  - Utah
    - Emery
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁷⁶⁹⁹⁸
    - Uintah
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹⁵¹⁷⁹
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹³²⁸¹
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹⁵⁵⁶⁷
        Dryosaurus elderae: CM 3392: humerus (right) ⁷⁵⁸⁵⁶
        Dryosaurus elderae: CM 11340: humerus (right) ⁷⁵⁸⁵⁶
    - Wayne
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁸⁵⁰⁴⁹
  - Wyoming
    - Albany
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹⁵¹⁷⁹
        Dryosaurus: ? ⁸⁵³³²
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹²⁵³⁴
        Dryosaurus: ? ¹³²⁸¹
        Dryosaurus altus: ? ¹³²⁸¹
        Dryosaurus altus identifié comme Laosaurus altus n. sp.: ? ⁷⁸⁰³
    - Carbon
      - Formation Morrison
        Dryosaurus altus identifié comme Laosaurus altus: YPM 1876: fibula (right) , fibula (left) , tibia (right) , tibia (left) , femur (right) , ulna (right) , ulna (left) , radius (right) , humerus (right) , femur, tibia, radius, humerus ⁷⁸⁰³
Historique des modifications:

Référence	Type	Partie	Côté	Dimension (en cm)	Lieu de découverte	Commentaires
YPM 1876		fibula	right	length: 370	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		fibula	left	length: 362	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		tibia	right	length: 395	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		tibia	left	length: 402	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
CM 1949		tibia	right	length: 512	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
AMNH 834		femur	right	length: 225	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		femur	right	length: 360	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
CM 1949		femur	right	length: 470	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		ulna	right	length: 152	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		ulna	left	length: 152	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		radius	right	length: 146	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
AMNH 834		humerus	left	length: 107	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
YPM 1876		humerus	right	length: 190	Collection: - Lieu: __, ,
CM 11340		humerus	right	length: 63	Collection: Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)- Lieu: US, Utah, Uintah
CM 3392		humerus	right	length: 190	Collection: Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)- Lieu: US, Utah, Uintah
CM 1949		femur		length: 470	Collection: Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)- Lieu: US, Utah, Uintah
AM 834		femur		width: 22, length: 222	Collection: Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)- Lieu: US, Utah, Uintah	minimum width of shaft
BM R185	holotype	femur		width: 14, length: 140	Collection: Hypsilophodon Bed, Cowleaze Chine- Lieu: GB, England, Isle of Wight	minimum width of shaft
YPM 1876	holotype	femur		length: 362, width: 39	Collection: Quarry 5, Como Bluff (YPM)- Lieu: US, Wyoming, Carbon	minimum width of shaft original length measurement of Marsh 1878 was 360 mm
YPM 1876	holotype	tibia		length: 393	Collection: Quarry 5, Como Bluff (YPM)- Lieu: US, Wyoming, Carbon	said by Horner and Weishampel 1988 to be 400 mm
YPM 1876	holotype	radius		length: 150	Collection: Quarry 5, Como Bluff (YPM)- Lieu: US, Wyoming, Carbon
YPM 1876	holotype	humerus		length: 190	Collection: Quarry 5, Como Bluff (YPM)- Lieu: US, Wyoming, Carbon

Pas de modification récente.

Publication(s)

La base comprend 21 publication(s).

Source: The Paleobiology Database

↑¹O. C. Marsh. 1894. The typical Ornithopoda of the American Jurassic. American Journal of Science, series 3 48:85-90 (https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-48.283.85)
↑^{1 2 3}O. C. Marsh. 1878. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part I. American Journal of Science and Arts 16:411-416 (https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-16.95.411)
↑^{1 2 3}K. Carpenter and P. M. Galton. 2018. A photo documentation of bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA. Geology of the Intermountain West 5:167-207 (https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v5.pp167-207)
↑¹R. S. Lull. 1911. Systematic paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Maryland: Vertebrata. Lower Cretaceous
↑¹R. Windolf. 2000. Dinosaur sites in the Upper Jurassic of northern Germany. 5th European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology. Program. Abstracts. Excursion Guides
↑¹E. Buffetaut and E. Cacheleux. 1997. The dinosaur Dryosaurus (Ornithopoda, Dryosauridae) in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Normandy: palaeobiogeographical implications. Compte Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, série IIa 324:499-503
↑^{1 2}P. M. Galton. 1975. English hypsilophodontid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia). Palaeontology 18(4):741-752
↑¹E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, and F. Escaso, P. Dantas, N. Pimentel, J. M. Gasulla, B. Ribeiro, F. Barriga, J. L. Sanz. 2010. Vertebrate fauna at the Allosaurus fossil-site of Andres (Upper Jurassic), Pombal, Portugal. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):193-204 (https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_JIGE.2010.v36.n2.7)
↑¹F. Escaso, F. Ortega, and P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, B. Silva, J. M. Gasulla, P. Mocho, I. Narvaeza, J. L. Sanz. 2014. A new dryosaurid ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1102-1112 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.849715)
↑^{1 2}K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426
↑¹J. I. Kirkland. 1994. Predation of dinosaur nests by terrestrial crocodilians. K. Carpenter, K.F. Hirsch & J.R. Horner (eds.) Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
↑^{1 2 3 4}C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114
↑¹J. S. McIntosh. 1981. Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18:1-67 (https://doi.org/10.5962/p.228597)
↑¹P. M. Galton and J. A. Jensen. 1973. Small bones of the hypsilophodontid dinosaur Dryosaurus altus from the Upepr Jurassic of Colorado. The Great Basin Naturalist 33(2):129-132
↑¹J. R. Horner, A. de Ricqlès, and K. Padian, R. D. Scheetz. 2009. Comparative long bone histology and growth of the "hypsilophodontid" dinosaurs Orodromeus makelai, Dryosaurus altus, and Tenontosaurus tillettii (Ornithlschla: Euornithopoda). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):734-747 (https://doi.org/10.1671/039.029.0312)
↑¹D. L. Jeffery, J. L. Bertog, and J. R. Bishop. 2011. Sequence stratigraphy of dinosaur lake: small scale fluvio-deltaic stratal relationships of a dinosaur accumulation at the Aaron Scott Quarry, Morrison Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah. Palaios 26(5):275-283 (https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2010.p10-104r)
↑^{1 2}J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95
↑¹D. J. Chure and G. F. Engelmann. 1989. The fauna of the Morrison Formation in Dinosaur National Monument. In J. J. Flynn (ed.), Mesozoic/Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Classic Localities, Contemporary Approaches: Field Trip Guide Book T322. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC (https://doi.org/10.1029/ft322p0008)
↑¹J. I. Kirkland and J. R. Lively. 2023. MTE14 Mesozoic of Utah Field Trip (https://doi.org/10.3102/2004552)
↑¹M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming
↑¹J. S. McIntosh, C. A. Miles, and K. C. Cloward, J. R. Parker. 1996. A new nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 1:1-87

Galerie d'images

Source: Wikimédia

Skeletal mount of Dryosaurus altus

Skeletal mount of Dryosaurus altus. Beneski Museum of Natural History.

Dryosaurus elderae (holotype, formerly assigned to D. altus) mounted...

Modèle de Dryosaurus altus au JuraPark Bałtów en Pologne.

Size comparison of the Jurassic North American ornithopod dinosaur...