Fabrosaurus
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Fabrosaurus (FAB-ro-sawr-us) (IPA /fæbɹosɑ'ɹəs/) meaning "Fabre's lizard" in honor of Jean Henri Fabre (Greek sauros = lizard) was a herbivorous dinosaur of the late Triassic and early Jurassic (208 - 196 mya). As the only fossil record is a partial jawbone with three teeth, Fabrosaurus is a nomen dubium and may in fact be Lesothosaurus.
Fabrosaurus was around 1 m (3 ft) long and 0.3 m (1 ft) high, weighing approximately 15 kg (38 lb). Little else can be inferred from the small fossil record. It was named after Jean Henri Fabre in 1964, by paleontologist Leonard Ginsburg. The type species, F. australis, is named for the location of the fossils in Lesotho, South Africa.
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- Ginsburg, L., 1964, "Decouverte d’un Scelidosaurien (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias superior du Basutoland", Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, 258; 2366 - 2368
