Ouranosaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Ouranosaurus (meaning "brave (monitor) lizard") is an unusual genus of herbivorous iguanodont dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous about 110 million years ago in what is now Africa. Ouranosaurus measured about seven to eight metres long (23 to 27 ft). Two rather complete fossils were found in the Echkar (or El Rhaz) Formation, Gadoufaoua deposits, Agadez, Niger, in 1965 and 1972. The most conspicuous feature of Ouranosaurus is a large "sail" on its back, supported by long, wide, neural spines, that spanned its entire rump and tail, resembling that of Spinosaurus, a well-known meat-eating dinosaur that lived around the same time.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Ornithischia | |
| clade | Ornithopoda | |
| clade | Hadrosauriformes | |
| genus | Ouranosaurus | |
| species | O. nigeriensis | |
| Temporal range | Early Cretaceous |
