List of African dinosaurs#Timeline

| 2010

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Primarily bipedal but also capable of quadrupedal locomotion

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| 1975

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}
{{flag|South Africa}}

| Known from two skulls, one of which possesses tusks, which may be an indication of sexual dimorphism{{Cite book|last1=Weishampel|first1=D.B.|title=The Dinosauria|last2=Witmer|first2=L.M.|date=1990|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06726-4|editor-last=Osmólska|editor-first=H.|location=Berkeley|pages=486–497|chapter=Heterodontosauridae|oclc=20670312|editor2-last=Dodson|editor2-first=P.|editor3-last=Weishampel|editor3-first=W.B.}}

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| 2020

| El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian?)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| One of the oldest known stegosaurs. Related to Late Jurassic European forms despite its early age{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=Susannah C. R.|last2=Raven|first2=Thomas J.|last3=Ouarhache|first3=Driss|last4=Barrett|first4=Paul M.|date=2020|title=North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity|journal=Gondwana Research|volume=77|pages=82–97|doi=10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.007|issn=1342-937X|doi-access=free|hdl=10141/622706|hdl-access=free}}

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| 1932

| Bahariya Formation, Continental intercalaire?, Farak Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

| {{flag|Egypt}}
{{flag|Niger}}?

| Its holotype specimen was destroyed in World War II

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| 2017

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Originally described as an African ornithomimosaur,{{cite journal |first1=P. |last1=Sereno |year=2017 |title=Early Cretaceous ornithomimosaurs (Dinosauria: Coelurosauria) from Africa |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=576–616 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.23.10.2017.3155|s2cid=134718338 }} but later redescribed as a possible noasaurid{{cite journal |first1=M.A. |last1=Cerroni |first2=F.L. |last2=Agnolin |first3=F. |last3=Brissón Egli |first4=F.E. |last4=Novas |year=2019 |title=The phylogenetic position of Afromimus tenerensis Sereno, 2017 and its paleobiogeographical implications |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |volume=159 |page=103572 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103572|bibcode=2019JAfES.15903572C |s2cid=201352476 }}

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| 1994

| Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Originally thought to hail from the Early Cretaceous

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| 2021

| Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| The first hadrosaurid known from Africa. Closely related to European lambeosaurines{{cite journal | title=The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography | last1=Longrich | first1=Nicholas R. | last2=Suberbiola | first2=Xabier Pereda | last3=Pyron | first3=R. Alexander | last4=Jalil | first4=Nour-Eddine | journal=Cretaceous Research | year=2020 | volume=120 | page=104678 | doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104678| s2cid=228807024 | doi-access=free }}

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| 1904

| Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian to Valanginian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Today known from only a few bones. Several more may have been made into bricks before they could be studied{{cite book|author=Don Lessem|author2=Donald F. Glut|others=Tracy Ford (illus.) ... [et al.] ; scientific advisors, Peter Dodson|title=The Dinosaur Society's dinosaur encyclopedia|year=1993|publisher=Random House|location=New York|isbn=0-679-41770-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/dinosaursocietys00less/page/16 16]|edition=1st.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursocietys00less/page/16}}

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| 2011

| Itombe Formation (Late Cretaceous, Coniacian)

| {{flag|Angola}}

| The first non-avian dinosaur described from Angola

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| 2003

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Had weight-bearing adaptations in all its limbs, although its forelimbs retain adaptations for grasping

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| 2011

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Combines traits of basal and advanced sauropodomorphs

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| 1999

| Guettioua Formation (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| Possessed relatively elongated legs for a sauropod

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| 2007

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Potentially an early euhelopodid{{cite journal |last1=Mannion |first1=P. D. |last2=Upchurch |first2=P. |last3=Schwarz |first3=D. |last4=Wings |first4=O. |title=Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2019 |volume=185 |issue=3 |pages=784–909 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zly068|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068573/ |hdl=10044/1/64080 |hdl-access=free }}

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| 1934

| Bahariya Formation, Farak Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

| {{flag|Egypt}}
{{flag|Niger}}?

| Large but known from very few remains

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| 2007

| Azilal Formation (Early Jurassic, Toarcian)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| One of the oldest known ceratosaurs

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| 1985

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| A "hyper-robust" form that niche partitioned with other Late Triassic Elliot Formation sauropodomorphs{{cite journal |last1=Mcphee |first1=Blair W. |last2=Bordy |first2=Emese M. |last3=Sciscio |first3=Lara |last4=Choiniere |first4=Jonah N. |year=2017 |title=The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution of Sauropodomorpha across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |doi=10.4202/app.00377.2017 |doi-access=free |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=441–465}}

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| 1931

| Chenini Formation?, Continental intercalaire, Echkar Formation, Elrhaz Formation?, Kem Kem Group, Wadi Milk Formation? (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

| {{flag|Algeria}}
{{flag|Morocco}}
{{flag|Niger}}
{{flag|Sudan}}?
{{flag|Tunisia}}

| One of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs. Two species are known

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| 2005

| Aïssa Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian)

| {{flag|Algeria}}

| Known from two juvenile specimens

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| 2017

| Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| Potentially represents a lineage of abelisaurids endemic to Africa

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| 1998

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Usually seen as a synonym of Suchomimus, although some studies consider it to be a valid genus{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2021.2000974?journalCode=ghbi20|doi=10.1080/08912963.2021.2000974|title=Rostral morphology of Spinosauridae (Theropoda, Megalosauroidea): Premaxilla shape variation and a new phylogenetic inference|year=2021|last1=Lacerda|first1=Mauro B.S.|last2=Grillo|first2=Orlando N.|last3=Romano|first3=Pedro S.R.|journal=Historical Biology|volume=34 |issue=11 |pages=2089–2109|s2cid=244418803}}

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| 1996

| Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

| {{flag|Morocco}}

| Its precise phylogenetic position has been historically unstable, with multiple interpretations being suggested in the scientific literature{{cite journal|author=Sereno Dutheil|author2=Iarochene Larsson|author3=Lyon Magwene|author4=Sidor Varricchio|author5=Wilson|year=1996|title=Predatory Dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous Faunal Differentiation|url=https://eurekamag.com/pdf/009/009226569.pdf|journal=Science|volume=272|issue=5264|pages=986–991|doi=10.1126/science.272.5264.986|pmid=8662584|bibcode=1996Sci...272..986S|s2cid=39658297}}{{cite journal |author1=Sebastián Apesteguía |author2=Nathan D. Smith |author3=Rubén Juárez Valieri |author4=Peter J. Makovicky |year=2016 |title=An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=e0157793 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0157793 |pmid=27410683 |pmc=4943716|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1157793A |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal|author=Matías J. Motta|author2=Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando|author3=Sebastián Rozadilla|author4=Federico E. Agnolín|author5=Nicolás R. Chimento|author6=Federico Brissón Egli|author7=Fernando E. Novas|name-list-style=amp|year=2016|title=New theropod fauna from the Upper Cretaceous (Huincul Formation) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304013683|journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin|volume=71|pages=231–253}}{{Cite journal|last1=Ibrahim|first1=Nizar|author-link=Nizar Ibrahim|last2=Sereno|first2=Paul C.|last3=Varricchio|first3=David J.|last4=Martill|first4=David M.|last5=Dutheil|first5=Didier B.|last6=Unwin|first6=David M.|last7=Baidder|first7=Lahssen|last8=Larsson|first8=Hans C. E.|last9=Zouhri|first9=Samir|last10=Kaoukaya|first10=Abdelhadi|date=2020-04-21|title=Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47517/|journal=ZooKeys|language=en|issue=928|pages=1–216|doi=10.3897/zookeys.928.47517|pmid=32362741|pmc=7188693|issn=1313-2970|doi-access=free}}

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| 1914

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| A short-necked, low-browsing sauropod. Two species are known

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| 2005

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Only known from fragments of a skull, but those are enough to tell that it was related to Dilophosaurus

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| 1919

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Known from multiple remains that revealed much about its life history,{{cite journal|last=Hübner|first=T.R.|date=2012|editor1-last=Laudet|editor1-first=V.|title=Bone histology in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia)--variation, growth, and implications|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=1|pages=e29958|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0029958|pmc=3253128|pmid=22238683|bibcode=2012PLoSO...729958H|doi-access=free}} diet{{Cite journal|last1=Hübner|first1=T.R.|last2=Rauhut|first2=O.W.M.|date=2010|title=A juvenile skull of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), and implications for cranial ontogeny, phylogeny, and taxonomy in ornithopod dinosaurs|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=160|issue=2|pages=366–396|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00620.x|doi-access=free}} and even disease{{cite journal|last1=Witzmann|first1=F.|last2=Claeson|first2=K.M.|last3=Hampe|first3=O.|last4=Wieder|first4=F.|last5=Hilger|first5=A.|last6=Manke|first6=I.|last7=Niederhagen|first7=M.|last8=Rothschild|first8=B.M.|last9=Asbach|first9=P.|date=2011|title=Paget disease of bone in a Jurassic dinosaur|journal=Current Biology|volume=21|issue=17|pages=R647–8|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.006|pmid=21920291|doi-access=free}}

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| 1920

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Possessed a relatively shallow chest for a medium-sized theropod

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| 2009

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Closely related to Valdosaurus

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| 2008

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Albian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Its frontal bone was swollen into a thick band, which gave it a menacing glare

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| 2007

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| One of the most completely known early ornithischians

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| 1920

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Carnian to Norian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Some fossils assigned to this genus were originally interpreted as those of a giant herrerasaurid

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| 1866

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}
{{flag|South Africa}}
{{flag|Zimbabwe}}

| Originally thought to have been bow-legged

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| 1911

| Clarens Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian to Toarcian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Poorly known but potentially a heterodontosaurid

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| 1988

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Popularly associated with Brachiosaurus but several differences between the two have been noted{{cite journal | last1 = Taylor | first1 = M.P. | s2cid = 15220647 | year = 2009 | title = A Re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropod) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914) | url = http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/taylor2009/Taylor2009-brachiosaurus-and-giraffatitan.pdf | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 29 | issue = 3| pages = 787–806 | doi=10.1671/039.029.0309}}

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| 1911

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Although usually seen as a synonym of Massospondylus, at least one study has found it to be distantly related{{Cite journal |last1=Yates |first1=A. M. |last2=Bonnan |first2=M. F. |last3=Neveling |first3=J. |last4=Chinsamy |first4=A. |last5=Blackbeard |first5=M. G. |year=2010 |title=A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B |pmid=19906674 |volume=277 |issue=1682 |pmc=2842739 |pages=787–794 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2009.1440 }}

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| 1962

| Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Possessed three types of teeth, including analogues of incisors and tusks, as well as a keratinous beak

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| 2023

| Quseir Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian)

| {{flag|Egypt}}

| More closely related to European titanosaurs than to southern African ones

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| 2010

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}

| Only known from a single, mostly articulated juvenile skeleton with a badly crushed skull

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| 1960

| Bahariya Formation?, Eckhar Formation?, Tegama Group? (Early Cretaceous, Albian?)

| {{flag|Egypt}}?
{{flag|Niger}}

| Very poorly known

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| 2022

| Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Valanginian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Uniquely known from an assemblage of mostly hatchling and juvenile fossils

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| 1991

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Potentially a close relative of Bellusaurus, Haestasaurus and Tehuelchesaurus, all of which may form a unique clade of eusauropods with possible turiasaur affinities{{Cite journal|author1=Daniela Schwarz |author2=Philip Mannion |author3=Oliver Wings |author4=Christian Meyer |year=2020 |title=Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. |journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences |volume=113 |doi=10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Mo |first1=Jinyou |last2=Ma |first2=Feimin |last3=Yu |first3=Yilun |last4=Xu |first4=Xing |date=2022-12-09 |title=A New Titanosauriform Sauropod with An Unusual Tail from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern China |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122003135 |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=144 |language=en |page=105449 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105449 |s2cid=254524890 |issn=0195-6671}}

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| 1999

| Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Known from an almost complete skeleton

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| 1915

| Kalahari Deposits Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Comparisons have been made with dryosaurids{{cite book |last=Ruiz-Omeñaca |first=José Ignacio |author2=Pereda Suberbiola, Xavier |author3=Galton, Peter M. |year=2007 |chapter=Callovosaurus leedsi, the earliest dryosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England |editor=Carpenter Kenneth|title=Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington and Indianapolis |pages=3–16 |isbn=978-0-253-34817-3}} but at least two studies suggest a position within Elasmaria{{Cite journal|last1=Dieudonné|first1=P.-E.|last2=Cruzado-Caballero|first2=P.|last3=Godefroit|first3=P.|last4=Tortosa|first4=T.|date=2020-07-20|title=A new phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs|url=https://rid.unrn.edu.ar/bitstream/20.500.12049/5441/1/Dieudonn%C3%A9_etal2020.pdf|journal=Historical Biology|volume=33|issue=10|pages=2335–2355|doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1793979|s2cid=221854017|issn=0891-2963}}{{Cite journal|last1=Rozadilla|first1=Sebastián|last2=Agnolín|first2=Federico Lisandro|last3=Novas|first3=Fernando Emilio|date=2019-12-17|title=Osteology of the Patagonian ornithopod Talenkauen santacrucensis (Dinosauria, Ornithischia)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332843404|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology|volume=17|issue=24|pages=2043–2089|doi=10.1080/14772019.2019.1582562|s2cid=155344014|issn=1477-2019}}

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| 2005

| Dinosaur Beds (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)

| {{flag|Malawi}}

| Described from only a mandible and isolated teeth

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| 1915

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

| {{flag|Tanzania}}

| Possessed two rows of plates that gradually transitioned into spikes towards the tail, as well as a long spike on each shoulder

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| 2020

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}

| Before its formal description, it had been informally referred to as "Kholumolumosaurus" and "Thotobolosaurus". The latter name means "trash heap lizard" in Sesotho, referring to how the holotype was originally found close to a trash heap

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| 2008

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| Postcranial remains referred to this genus may have instead come from a carcharodontosaurid{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/14772019.2011.630927 |last=Carrano |first=Matthew T. |author2=Roger B. J. Benson |author3=Scott D. Sampson |year=2012 |title=The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=211–300|s2cid=85354215 }}

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| 2018

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| One of the largest Early Jurassic dinosaurs, estimated as weighing {{convert|12|tonne|lbs}} despite lacking columnar limbs like later sauropods{{cite journal | title=A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs |last1=McPhee |first1=Blair W. |last2=Benson |first2=Roger B.J. |last3=Botha-Brink |first3=Jennifer |last4=Bordy |first4=Emese M. |last5=Choiniere |first5=Jonah N. |name-list-style=amp | journal=Current Biology | volume=28 | issue=19 | pages=3143–3151.e7 | year=2018 | doi=10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.063| pmid=30270189 |doi-access=free }}

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| 1978

| Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}
{{flag|South Africa}}

| Possibly an opportunistic omnivore, feeding on meat during seasons when plants are not available{{Cite journal |last1=Sciscio |first1=Lara |last2=Knoll |first2=Fabien |last3=Bordy |first3=Emese M. |last4=Kock |first4=Michiel O. de |last5=Redelstorff |first5=Ragna |date=2017-03-01 |title=Digital reconstruction of the mandible of an adult Lesothosaurus diagnosticus with insight into the tooth replacement process and diet |journal=PeerJ |language=en |volume=5 |pages=e3054 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3054 |pmid=28265518 |pmc=5335715 |issn=2167-8359 |doi-access=free }}

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| 1999

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)

| {{flag|Niger}}

| The proportions of its body and limbs suggest it may have been a semiaquatic herbivore similar to a hippopotamus{{cite book |last1=T. R. |first1=Holtz Jr.|author1-link=Thomas R. Holtz Jr. |last2=Rey |first2=L.|author2-link=Luis Rey |title=Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages |date=2007 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |isbn=978-0-375-82419-7 |url-access=registration |page=257|url=https://archive.org/details/dinosaursmostcom00holt/page/256}}

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| 1924

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| Originally misidentified as a cynodont

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| 1993

| Dinosaur Beds (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)

| {{flag|Malawi}}

| Known from abundant material, including elements from the skull and osteoderms, but they may not represent a single taxon{{cite book|last1=Carballido|first1=J.L.|last2=Otero|first2=A.|last3=Mannion|first3=P.D.|last4=Salgado|first4=L.|last5=Moreno|first5=A.P.|year=2022|chapter=Titanosauria: A Critical Reappraisal of Its Systematics and the Relevance of the South American Record|pages=269–298|editor-last=Otero|editor-first=A.|editor2-last=Carballido|editor2-first=J.L.|editor3-last=Pol|editor3-first=D.|title=South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Record, Diversity and Evolution|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-030-95958-6|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95959-3|s2cid=248368302 |issn=2197-9596}}

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| 2018

| Quseir Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian)

| {{flag|Egypt}}

| One of the few Late Cretaceous sauropods known from Africa{{cite journal |last1=Sallam |first1=H. |last2=Gorscak |first2=E. |last3=O'Connor |first3=P. |last4=El-Dawoudi |first4=I. |last5=El-Sayed |first5=S. |last6=Saber |first6=S. |title=New Egyptian sauropod reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa |journal=Nature |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=445–451 |date=2017-06-26 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0455-5|pmid=29379183 |s2cid=3375335 }}

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| 1854

| Bushveld Sandstone, Clarens Formation, Elliot Formation, Forest Sandstone (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Pliensbachian)

| {{flag|Lesotho}}
{{flag|South Africa}}
{{flag|Zimbabwe}}

| Abundant remains have been discovered. Several specimens were once assigned to their own genera and species

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| 2022

| Pebbly Arkose Formation (Late Triassic, Carnian)

| {{flag|Zimbabwe}}

| One of the oldest dinosaurs known from Africa. Its discovery proves that the earliest dinosaurs were restricted to high latitudes{{Cite journal |last1=Griffin |first1=Christopher T. |last2=Wynd |first2=Brenen M. |last3=Munyikwa |first3=Darlington |last4=Broderick |first4=Tim J. |last5=Zondo |first5=Michel |last6=Tolan |first6=Stephen |last7=Langer |first7=Max C. |last8=Nesbitt |first8=Sterling J. |last9=Taruvinga |first9=Hazel R. |date=2022-08-31 |title=Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution |journal=Nature |volume=609 |issue=7926 |pages=313–319 |language=en |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-05133-x |pmid=36045297 |s2cid=251977824 |issn=0028-0836}}

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| 1924

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)

| {{flag|South Africa}}

| A robust, quadrupedal herbivore. Some specimens assigned to this genus may not represent the same taxon

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| 2016

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)

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| Its femur was unusually robust for an animal of its size

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| 2024

| Ouled Abdoun Basin (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)

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| Known from a partial skull

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| 2019

| Galula Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Aptian to Cenomanian)

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| Its specific name, moyowamkia, is Kiswahili for "heart tail", which references the heart-shaped cross-section of its caudal vertebrae

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| 2024

| Pebbly Arkose Formation, (Late Triassic, Norian)

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| The fourth dinosaur genus to be named from Zimbabwe

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| 2019

| Clarens Formation (Early Jurassic, Pliensbachian to Toarcian)

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| Known from a skull originally assigned to Massospondylus. It was assigned to its own genus based on its unique proportions

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| 1999

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian)

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| All of its teeth were at the front of its jaws, which were wider than the rest of its skull, an adaptation to low browsing

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| 2000

| Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian)

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| The first non-avian coelurosaur named from mainland Africa

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| 1867

| Elliot Formation? (Late Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian)

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| Probably a synonym of Euskelosaurus

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| 2012

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)

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| Described from a single tooth as an early spinosaurid{{cite journal|last=Buffetaut|first=Eric|year=2012|title=An early spinosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) and the evolution of the spinosaurid dentition|url=http://www.dinosauria.org/documents/2017/buffetaut_2013.pdf|journal=Oryctos|volume=10|pages=1–8}} but ceratosaurid affinities have also been proposed{{Cite journal|last1=Soto|first1=Matías|last2=Toriño|first2=Pablo|last3=Perea|first3=Daniel|date=2020-11-01|title=Ceratosaurus (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) teeth from the Tacuarembó Formation (Late Jurassic, Uruguay)|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981120303242|journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences|language=en|volume=103|page=102781|doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102781|bibcode=2020JSAES.10302781S|s2cid=224842133|issn=0895-9811}}

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| 1976

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian)

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| Had long neural spines that projected from its vertebrae, which may have supported a sail or hump in life

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| 2001

| Bahariya Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Would have lived in a tidal flat environment dominated by mangroves

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| 1929

| Kirkwood Formation (Early Cretaceous, Berriasian to Valanginian)

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| Although only known from fragmentary specimens, they are enough to tell that it was a stegosaur

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| 2012

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian)

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| The morphology of its jaws and beak suggests a diet of tough plants

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| 1932

| Elliot Formation (Late Triassic, Norian)

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| Known from multiple specimens, including those of juveniles

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| 2015

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian to Sinemurian)

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| A low browser that lacked the extremely long neck of later sauropods

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| 1954

| Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Carried a row of elongated neural spines, which would have supported a ridge or low sail on its back

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| 2004

| Echkar Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Preserves two rows of holes on the top of its skull, which may have anchored a display structure{{Cite journal|last1=Sereno|first1=Paul C.|last2=Wilson|first2=Jeffrey A.|last3=Conrad|first3=Jack L.|date=2004-07-07|title=New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid-Cretaceous|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=271|issue=1546|pages=1325–1330|doi=10.1098/rspb.2004.2692|issn=0962-8452|pmc=1691741|pmid=15306329}} or an armor-like dermis{{cite journal |last=Delcourt |first=Rafael |date=2018 |title=Ceratosaur palaeobiology: new insights on evolution and ecology of the southern rulers |journal=Scientific Reports |pmid=29950661 |pmc=6021374 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-28154-x |bibcode=2018NatSR...8.9730D |volume=8 |issue=1 |page=9730}}

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| 2014

| Galula Formation (Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, Albian to Cenomanian)

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| One of the few titanosaurs known from central Africa, filling in a gap in their evolutionary history

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| 2012

| Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Only known from a single, thickened frontal. Suggested to be a synonym of Carcharodontosaurus but this has been refuted{{cite journal| vauthors = Paterna A, Cau A |title=New giant theropod material from the Kem Kem Compound Assemblage (Morocco) with implications on the diversity of the mid-Cretaceous carcharodontosaurids from North Africa |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |year=2022 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2022.2131406 |s2cid=252856791 }}

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| 2015

| Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic, Hettangian)

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| Had a distinctive cross-shaped astragalus

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| 2017

| Galula Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian to Maastrichtian)

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| Most closely related to South American titanosaurs

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| 2021

| El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian)

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| The oldest ankylosaur known and the first one from Africa. Uniquely, its osteoderms were fused directly to its ribs

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| 2009

| Irhazer Shale (Middle Jurassic, Bajocian to Bathonian)

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| Originally described as possessing a "thagomizer" similar to those of stegosaurs,{{cite journal |last1=Remes |first1=K. |last2=Ortega |first2=F. |last3=Fierro |first3=I. |last4=Joger |first4=U. |last5=Kosma |first5=R. |last6=Marín Ferrer |first6=J. M. |last7=Ide |first7=O. A.u |last8=Maga |first8=A. |last9=Farke |first9=A. A. |title=A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of Sauropoda |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2009 |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=e6924 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0006924|pmid=19756139 |pmc=2737122 |bibcode=2009PLoSO...4.6924R |doi-access=free }} but these turned out to be misidentified clavicles.{{cite journal |last1=Tschopp |first1=E. |last2=Mateus |first2=O. |title=Clavicles, interclavicles, gastralia, and sternal ribs in sauropod dinosaurs: new reports from Diplodocidae and their morphological, functional and evolutionary implications |journal=Journal of Anatomy |date=2013 |volume=222 |issue=3 |pages=321–340 |doi=10.1111/joa.12012|pmid=23190365 |pmc=3582252 }} A high browser with tall shoulders and an elevated neck{{cite journal |last1=Vidal |first1=D. |last2=Mocho |first2=P. |last3=Aberasturi |first3=A. |last4=Sanz |first4=J. L. |last5=Ortega |first5=F. |title=High browsing skeletal adaptations in Spinophorosaurus reveal an evolutionary innovation in sauropod dinosaurs |journal=Scientific Reports |date=2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=6638 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-63439-0|pmid=32313018 |pmc=7171156 |bibcode=2020NatSR..10.6638V |s2cid=215819745 }}

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| 1915

| Bahariya Formation, Chenini Formation, Kem Kem Group (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Possessed a myriad of features that have been suggested to be evidence of a semiaquatic lifestyle, including webbed feet{{cite journal|last1=Ibrahim|first1=Nizar|author-link=Nizar Ibrahim|last2=Sereno|first2=Paul C.|author-link2=Paul Sereno|last3=Dal Sasso|first3=Cristiano|last4=Maganuco|first4=Simone|last5=Fabri|first5=Matteo|last6=Martill|first6=David M.|last7=Zouhri|first7=Samir|last8=Myhrvold|first8=Nathan|last9=Lurino|first9=Dawid A.|date=2014|title=Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur|url=https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/semiaquatic-adaptations-in-a-giant-predatory-dinosaur(8f11a1ce-3265-4b3b-8c81-6f576856a87f).html|journal=Science|volume=345|issue=6204|pages=1613–6|bibcode=2014Sci...345.1613I|doi=10.1126/science.1258750|pmid=25213375|s2cid=34421257|doi-access=free}} [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1258750 Supplementary Information] and a paddle-like tail.{{Cite journal|last1=Ibrahim|first1=Nizar|author-link=Nizar Ibrahim|last2=Maganuco|first2=Simone|last3=Dal Sasso|first3=Cristiano|last4=Fabbri|first4=Matteo|last5=Auditore|first5=Marco|last6=Bindellini|first6=Gabriele|last7=Martill|first7=David M.|last8=Zouhri|first8=Samir|last9=Mattarelli|first9=Diego A.|last10=Unwin|first10=David M.|last11=Wiemann|first11=Jasmina|date=2020|title=Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=581|issue=7806|pages=67–70|doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2190-3|issn=1476-4687|pmid=32376955|bibcode=2020Natur.581...67I|s2cid=216650535|doi-access=free}} However, it is debated if it was a marine piscivore{{cite journal |last1=Fabbri |first1=Matteo |last2=Navalón |first2=Guillermo |last3=Benson |first3=Roger B. J. |last4=Pol |first4=Diego |last5=O'Connor |first5=Jingmai |last6=Bhullar |first6=Bhart-Anjan S. |last7=Erickson |first7=Gregory M. |last8=Norell |first8=Mark A. |last9=Orkney |first9=Andrew |last10=Lamanna |first10=Matthew C. |last11=Zouhri |first11=Samir |last12=Becker |first12=Justine |last13=Emke |first13=Amanda |last14=Dal Sasso |first14=Cristiano |last15=Bindellini |first15=Gabriele |last16=Maganuco |first16=Simone |last17=Auditore |first17=Marco |last18=Ibrahim |first18=Nizar |title=Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs |journal=Nature |date=March 23, 2022 |volume=603 |issue=7903 |pages=852–857 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-04528-0 |pmid=35322229 |bibcode=2022Natur.603..852F |s2cid=247630374 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:264b7ca2-1190-4b76-ab93-074cedf897e1 }} or a shoreline generalist{{cite journal |doi=10.7554/eLife.80092 |doi-access=free |title=Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur |year=2022 |last1=Sereno |first1=Paul C. |last2=Myhrvold |first2=Nathan |last3=Henderson |first3=Donald M. |last4=Fish |first4=Frank E. |last5=Vidal |first5=Daniel |last6=Baumgart |first6=Stephanie L. |last7=Keillor |first7=Tyler M. |last8=Formoso |first8=Kiersten K. |last9=Conroy |first9=Lauren L. |journal=eLife |volume=11 |pmid=36448670 |pmc=9711522 |at=e80092}}

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| 2004

| Tiourarén Formation (Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic, Bathonian to Oxfordian)

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| Although often considered a close relative of Elaphrosaurus, these inferences are based on a specimen that cannot actually be referred to this genusRauhut, O.W.M., and Carrano, M.T. (2016). The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, (advance online publication) {{doi|10.1111/zoj.12425}}

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| 1998

| Elrhaz Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian to Albian)

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| Similar to Baryonyx but with a low sail on its back

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| 2025

| Bahariya Formation (Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian)

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| Based on destroyed fossils originally referred to Carcharodontosaurus

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| 2013

| Aïn el Guettar Formation (Early Cretaceous, Albian)

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| Its bones were extensively pneumatized, supporting the theory that sauropods had bird-like respiratory systems

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| 2004

| Azilal Formation (Early Jurassic, Toarcian)

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| One of the few Early Jurassic sauropods known from reasonably complete remains

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| 2000

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)

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| The first definitive turiasaur known from Africa

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| 2024

| El Mers Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian?)

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| May have possessed a recumbent dermal armor, an unusual feature among stegosaurs{{Cite journal |last1=Zafaty |first1=O. |last2=Oukassou |first2=M. |last3=Riguetti |first3=F. |last4=((Company)) |first4=J. |last5=Bendrioua |first5=S. |last6=Tabuce |first6=R. |last7=Charrière |first7=A. |last8=Pereda-Suberbiola |first8=X. |date=2024 |title=A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=131 |pages=344–362 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.009|bibcode=2024GondR.131..344Z }}

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| 1911

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

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| Has been assigned to different genera throughout its history

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| 2011

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)

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| Known from a few vertebrae somewhat similar to those of Acrocanthosaurus

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| 1972

| Forest Sandstone (Early Jurassic, Sinemurian to Pliensbachian)

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| Theropod teeth were found associated with the holotype

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| 2019

| Tendaguru Formation (Late Jurassic, Tithonian)

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| The first definitive mamenchisaurid known from outside Asia

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